Various aspects of the intervention may be evaluated depending on the requirements and needs of the setting, including attainment of identified goals, effectiveness of the intervention over time, satisfaction with services for clients and families, and cost-effectiveness of services.
Individual goal achievement was assessed in sessions six and ten and possible barriers to the goal attainment were identified and modified if possible.
The aim of this comparison is to either confirm actual behaviour and goal attainment or identify gaps or dissonance between actual behaviour, pursued goals, and produced outcomes [ 28].
Considerable social research over the years, including government research, has shown how truancy, exclusion from school and low educational attainment are strongly identified as "risk factors" in relation to involvement in crime.
In constructing the overall attainment index, WHO identified five output indicators and no inputs, preferring to treat each country's health system as a "health output management unit".
We used the Rapkin and Schwartz (2004) approach to permit a wider variety and number of responses to emerge, and to allow individuals to directly evaluate their progress toward attainment of each identified personal goal [ 22].
The Parents Plus Goal Form was designed by the authors of the Parents Plus Programmes in order to (1) evaluate attainment of target goals that parents identify in relation to their child; and (2) evaluate parent's attainment of personal goals identified prior to starting the programme.
A small study in four nursing homes in 2003, before introduction of the new primary care contract, identified low attainment of several of the indicators in our study.
We will collect data on the reduction in serum alkaline phosphatase level and attainment of the previously identified positive outcome measure of drop in baseline alkaline phosphatase of >40% or normalisation (Barcelona Criteria).
The evidence in Gimenez-Nadal and Molina (2013) suggests that educational attainment could help identifying the sample selection model for fathers.
