Mapping evaluation of UK childhood bereavement services

Findings from a recent study

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20159762
AutoresLiz Rolls (0000-0001-9225-5497, University of Gloucestershire), Alison Penny (0000-0003-2818-4414, Childhood Bereavement Network)
Año2011
Volumen30
Número1
Páginas43-47
Fecha de publicación2011-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaBereavement Care (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0268-2621 • E-ISSN: 1944-8279
EditorialCruse Bereavement Care (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02682621.2011.555236
OpenAlexW1499532493
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas9

This article reports a study of evaluation strategies and tools currently used within UK child bereavement services. Data were sought from a representative sample of services across the UK on the evaluations’ users, the data requested, and organisations' existing evaluation strategies. The study found that child bereavement services were struggling with a considerable burden of demand for information from a range of users – chiefly funders and commissioners of services. However, a mapping exercise revealed that a considerable amount of the data required by evaluation users was the same, and that it was being obtained from evaluations that services overall were already undertaking. The most common forms of evaluation were post-intervention user satisfaction surveys of core interventions, using self-completion questionnaires. However, collection of basic data was limited and patchy, and evaluations of outcomes and organisational processes and reporting on the findings were less common. Based on these findings, the researchers propose the development of a set of common evaluation tools that could be used across all child bereavement services

Data collection · Psychiatry · Psychological intervention · Sociology · Child Abuse and Trauma · Computer Science · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Migration, Health and Trauma · Psychology