Qualitative evaluation and process evaluation can provide important evidence for enhancing the quality of programmes and examining why and how programmes either work or do not work.
In view of the resources available to community rehabilitation settings, we recommend a combination of four strategies in community trials: (a) quantitative evaluation using experimental or quasi-experimental designs, (b) subjective outcome evaluation, (c) qualitative evaluation, and (d) process outcome evaluation.
This article reports on the outcomes of the intervention, and a more qualitative evaluation of the processes involved is reported on elsewhere.
On the other hand, the semi-analytical approach provides a very good qualitative evaluation of the solidification process.
As this is a complex intervention delivered within the context of normal practice, a qualitative evaluation of the implementation process is important in interpreting the study findings [ 36].
In the 2000s, the UK Medical Research Council framework for the development and evaluation of complex interventions highlighted the utility of using a variety of methods at different phases of the evaluation process, including qualitative research.
The purpose of this article is to present the qualitative and quantitative item-level evaluation process that was used to develop the PROMIS Physical Function item bank and the results of this evaluation.
After a nine month process, qualitative evaluations, using FGDs were conducted in the selected communities to determine the value and perception of the CSC process and outcomes resulting from community engagement.
After advice from the National Research Ethics Service South-West (Bristol), UK, the quantitative and qualitative evaluations planned for this process do not require full, NHS ethical approval as is it an evaluation of a change in service.
Qualitative process evaluation was present in a few projects (31.25%).
Qualitative process evaluation results were helpful in explaining why these principles were poorly implemented and underscored, in particular, the importance of BII staff members' understanding and attitudes.
