MCA is a mostly subjective approach founding on the decision makers' evaluations, although objective data like prices can be added.
The Group Decision Room (GDR) technique was used to elicit the policy makers' evaluations of the procedure in an anonymous and reliable manner.
Realist Evaluation (RE), developed by Pawson & Tilley [ 11], argues that in order to be useful for decision makers, evaluations need to indicate 'what works in which conditions for whom', rather than merely answering the question 'does it work?'.
These eight EBDM competency items are included in this study: action planning, adapting interventions, communicating research to policy makers, economic evaluation, evaluation designs, prioritization of program and policy options, qualitative evaluation, and quantitative evaluation.
The fuzzy DEMATEL and ANP methods are described below: Step 1 Aggregate linguistic values from decision-makers' evaluation according to Tseng [26].
Main competencies needed for EBDM include action planning, adapting interventions, communicating research to policy makers, economic evaluation, designing evaluations (including qualitative and quantitative approaches), and prioritizing program and policy options [ 4].
From the perspective of policy-makers, evaluations of publicly funded programmes are necessary to justify their spending of public money.
Since decision-makers' evaluations in pairwise comparisons contain uncertainty, this may cause the decision-makers feel more confident to provide fuzzy judgement than crisp comparisons [28].
41 Pawson and Tilley 42 developed the realist evaluation approach arguing that in order to be useful for decision-makers, evaluations need to indicate "what works in which conditions for whom", rather than merely "does it work?".
These findings provide information for health policy makers on evaluation of the cost-effectiveness of cancer screening and prevention program.
The findings will be of interest to programme implementers, policy makers and evaluation researchers working in the development, education, and sexual and reproductive health fields.
