Evaluation Process, Stakeholders' Roles, and Data Collection and Analysis Process

Program Evaluation and Reflection on Dispositions
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Program Evaluation and Reflection on Dispositions
Part 1: Evaluation Process
Program evaluation entails engaging stakeholders, appraising resources, designing evaluation questions, collecting and analyzing data, and executing the results. Impact evaluation domains intersect with the domains of appraising workplace wellness programs. Impact evaluation emphasizes the instant observable impact of the program resulting in the intended outcomes. Variables for appraising the wellness program's effectiveness include workers' behaviors and risk factors, including tracking injury trends and incidents. Impact evaluations for wellness programs also consider the cause-and-effect domains, including the degree to which deviations recorded could be attributed to the implemented plan. Impact evaluations need to be conducted eighteen to thirty-six months after the program was implemented. To assess the impact thresholds of appraisal, metrics should be tailored to short-term shifts recorded due to the program execution. Change is expected to happen centered on the program curriculum points (Martinez, 2017). For example, it is expected that employees would record improvements in physical, spiritual, mental, social, emotional, and environmental wellbeing.
The stakeholders participating in the worksite wellness program can be categorized into coalition members, management, partners, program staff, and employees. The stakeholders provide perspectives that impact every step of the program evaluation process. The stakeholder role in describing the program ensures a consensual and clear understanding of the critical activities and anticipated outcomes. Stakeholders also provide preferences and insights into the most appropriate and effective ways to gather data from the participants. They are involved in program evaluation at different levels (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, n.d.). For instance, coalition members should be included on the assessment team and engage them in creating questions, gathering data, and analyzing. In addition, stakeholder involvement in the evaluation process guarantees their support, including acting on the outcomes and recommendations.
Program design and the delivered curriculum to managers are anchored on established public health prevention practice instruments for chronic illness prevention. These tools include the CDC health impact pyramid and the occupational health and safety (for example, the NIOSH hierarchy of controls). Notably, these instruments encourage population-level strategies and system reforms whereby the initiatives are beneficial to the program participants and establish the prerequisites for effective behavioral changes on the part of employees (Ryan et al., 2019). The data collection tools for the worksite wellness program implementation and appraisal include program application, exit interviews, environmental scan, onboarding survey, and workplace wellness action plan (Ryan et al., 2019). Analysis of the workplace wellness program would include real-time and pre-post appraisals. The short-term outcomes would inform program adjustments between partners to en...