Evaluating treatment efficacy by triangulation

The project ‘Efficacy of Support Groups for Mexican American Widows’ was evaluated by triangulating results collected from different points of view. These included changes after one year in (1) measurement scores of standardized instruments, (2) assessment of adjustment to role of widow by the outsi...

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Published in:Social science & medicine (1982) 1993-06, Vol.36 (12), p.1545-1554
Main Authors: Kay, Margarita, de Zapien, Jill Guernsey, Wilson, Carmen Altamirano, Yoder, Marianne
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Arizona
Bereavement
bereavement resolution
bereavement resolution support groups Mexican American evaluation
Biological and medical sciences
Evaluation
Evaluation Studies as Topic
Female
Hispanic Americans
Humans
Medical sciences
Mexican American
Mexican American people
Mexican Americans
Middle Aged
Prevention and actions
Program Evaluation
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Research Design
Self Help Groups
Single Person - psychology
Social Adjustment
Social Support
Specific populations (family, woman, child, elderly...)
Support groups
Widowhood
Widows
Widows & widowers
Women
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Summary:The project ‘Efficacy of Support Groups for Mexican American Widows’ was evaluated by triangulating results collected from different points of view. These included changes after one year in (1) measurement scores of standardized instruments, (2) assessment of adjustment to role of widow by the outsider and (3) evaluation by the widow herself. When subjects were categorized by their assignment to experimental or control groups, the scores on standardized instruments including the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), the Center for Epidemiologic Study of Depression (CES-D), Anxiety State, Life Satisfaction and new scales measuring Somatic symptoms and Emotional symptoms had decreased from time 1 to time 5 for all widows. However, the widows participating in support groups showed significantly improved changes in these scores. The outsiders found the women who participated in the support groups to have a far better change to the role of widow than the control widows. The support group windows themselves described more positive changes in themselves than did control widows.
ISSN:0277-9536
1873-5347
DOI:10.1016/0277-9536(93)90343-3