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Adapting realist evaluation for Made in Africa evaluation criteria

African Evaluation Journal, 2020
Background: Globally, the theory and practice of evaluation largely emerged from Euro-Western worldviews and continue to evolve in a manner that addresses the needs of Euro-Western interests.
Nombeko P. Mbava, Sarah Chapman
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Sig realist research design and evaluation, methods workshop

International Journal of Integrated Care, 2019
Background: Realist research methodology is increasingly being used for the design and evaluation of integrated care initiatives. Much of current realist research and evaluation is qualitative in nature and yet many realist methodologists, including ...
John Eastwood
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Quality and reporting standards, resources, training materials and information for realist evaluation: the RAMESES II project

Health Services and Delivery Research, 2017
Background: Many of the problems confronting policy- and decision-makers, evaluators and researchers today are complex, as are the interventions designed to tackle them.
Geoff Wong, Gill Westhorp, Joanne Greenhalgh, Ana Manzano, Justin Jagosh, Trisha Greenhalgh   +5 more
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An overview of realist evaluation for simulation-based education

Advances in Simulation, 2018
This article describes the key features of realist (realistic) evaluation and illustrates their application using, as an example, a simulation-based course for final year medical students.
Alastair C Graham, Sean McAleer
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Using Realist Interviews to Improve Theory on the Mechanisms and Outcomes of Sport for Development Programmes

Social Inclusion, 2020
The complex nature of Sport for Development (SfD) programmes makes impact evaluation challenging. Realist evaluation has been proposed as a new, theory-driven approach to evaluate complex programmes.
Kirsten Thecla Verkooijen, Sabina Super, Lisanne Sofie Mulderij, Dico de Jager, Annemarie Wagemakers   +4 more
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Adoption and Initial Implementation of a National Integrated Care Programme for Diabetes: A Realist Evaluation

International Journal of Integrated Care, 2022
Background: The implementation of models of integrated care for chronic conditions is not well understood. We conducted a realist evaluation to determine how and why the implementation of the National Diabetes Programme in Ireland worked (or not ...
Kate O’Neill, Fiona Riordan, Emmy Racine, Marsha Tracey, Chrysanthi Papoutsi, Patricia M. Kearney, Sheena M. McHugh   +6 more
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Exploring the impact of evaluation on learning and health innovation sustainability: protocol for a realist synthesis

Systematic Reviews, 2023
Background Within the Learning Health System (LHS) model, learning routines, including evaluation, allow for continuous incremental change to take place.
Marissa Bird, Élizabeth Côté-Boileau, Walter P. Wodchis, Lianne Jeffs, Maura MacPhee, James Shaw, Tujuanna Austin, Frances Bruno, Megan Bhalla, Carolyn Steele Gray   +9 more
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Realist evaluations in low- and middle-income countries: reflections and recommendations from the experiences of a foreign researcher

BMJ Global Health, 2019
Realist evaluation, a methodology for exploring generative causation within complex health interventions to understand ‘how, why and for whom’ programmes work, is experiencing a surge of interest. Trends indicate that the proliferation in the use of this
Brynne Gilmore
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Making healthcare accessible for single adults with complex needs experiencing long-term homelessness: A realist evaluation protocol [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]

HRB Open Research, 2021
Background: Over the last several years, homelessness has increased in Ireland and across Europe. Rates have recently declined since the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, but it is unclear whether emergency housing measures will remain in ...
Rikke Siersbaek, John Ford, Clíona Ní Cheallaigh, Sara Burke, Steve Thomas   +4 more
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A Critical Realist Translational Social Epidemiology Protocol for Concretising and Contextualising a “Theory of Neighbourhood Context, Stress, Depression, and the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD)”, Sydney Australia

International Journal of Integrated Care, 2019
Background: We will describe here a translational social epidemiology protocol for confirming a critical realist “Theory of Neighbourhood Context, Stress, Depression, and the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD)”. The approach will include
John G. Eastwood, Lynn A. Kemp, Pankaj Garg, Ingrid Tyler, Denise E. De Souza   +4 more
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