Using baseline studies as a basis for Monitoring and Evaluation: A review of the literature David Ssekamatte and Samuel Moses Okello Presented at the UMI International Conference on Governance and service delivery in developing countries 2015
Baseline studies are pivotal as part of the pre-intervention foundational activities, because they help in testing hypotheses and can be a point of reference in the formative stages of a project ...
Baselines and monitoring: More than a means to measure the end
The project initially commissioned a baseline to assess against post-project outcomes. ... The authors would like to acknowledge that the case study described in this paper was funded by Better Care Victoria and lead by Numurkah District Health Service. ... International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 11(5), 5170-5207 ...
Baseline Study in Monitoring and Evaluation: Definition, Importance
The baseline study serves as a reference point against which progress can be measured and evaluated throughout the project cycle. The following are some of the specific purposes of a baseline study: Establishing a Baseline: The baseline study provides a starting point for monitoring and evaluating the impact of the intervention. It provides a ...
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Before launching a project to train transporters, the freight logistics team at TMEA commissioned a training needs analysis, to identify current training providers and gaps. The consultant surveyed 649 transport operators, including drivers, mechanics, and administration staff from across the East African region.
Comparing baseline characteristics between groups: an introduction to
A combined table reporting baseline characteristics is usually displayed, for the overall population and then separately for each group. The last column usually gives the P value for the comparison between study groups. In the conventional research model, the variables for which data are collected are limited in number.
Section 9. Developing Baseline Measures
Baseline measures can help you tell if you're using methods ... Figure out what your research results suggest about relationships between the problem(s) and the behaviors of the targeted group. Develop an action plan. Set a behavioral goal for the intervention; Study what knowledge and information you already have about the community and the ...
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2. Plan for data collection (methodology) and management. As already discussed, the overall purpose of a baseline is to obtain reliable and useful data prior to a project start, which can then be used to monitor and evaluate the project. However, it is important to refine the purpose and scope of the baseline study.
Using baseline studies as a basis for Monitoring and Evaluation: A
Baseline studies are pivotal as part of the pre-intervention foundational activities, as they help in testing hypotheses and can be a point of reference in formative stages of a project in case the changes are bigger than what was assumed. ... • Originality/value of paper - Because baseline modeling holds substantial potential ...
Assessing baseline conditions: a collaborative effort to advance
In this study, we discuss the value of baseline data and share the experience and lessons learned from an academic-practice research partnership formed before construction to document baseline conditions. ... with validated site data as a baseline contributing to a more rigorous landscape performance study. The purpose of this paper is to share ...
Describing Baseline Conditions: Suggestions for Study Reports
Third, adequate description of baseline conditions is necessary if other investigators are to replicate studies. Horner et al. proposed three different research groups should study an independent variable and find it effective before sufficient data exist to conclude a practice has an adequate evidence base.Regardless of the extent to which such proposals are accepted, replication has a long ...
Baseline information is useful at different phases in the project cycle - for early- stage planning, for intermediate monitoring and for final evaluation. ... It will stimulate and facilitate more baseline studies by SIDA. sunmsw INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY Evaluation Unit S-105 25 STOCKHOLM Tel: 08-728 51 OO ISBN 91 - 586 7183 8 ...
Should we prove the balance of baseline data in randomized controlled
Despite the fact that it has long been known to be inappropriate to evaluate or present differences in baseline data of randomized controlled trials [ 2, 3 ], research papers presenting P values for underlying variables are easily found. According to a study conducted in 1997, half of the randomized controlled trials (50%) in leading journals ...
What is a Baseline Study and how can I design it?
A Baseline study measures specific conditions after a project has been designed, based on the indicators stated in the log frame. It is an analysis of the current situation to identify the starting points for a programme or project. It looks at what information must be considered and analyzed to establish a baseline or starting point, against ...
The use of percentage change from baseline as an outcome in a
Many randomized trials involve measuring a continuous outcome - such as pain, body weight or blood pressure - at baseline and after treatment. In this paper, I compare four possibilities for how such trials can be analyzed: post-treatment; change between baseline and post-treatment; percentage change between baseline and post-treatment and analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) with baseline score as ...
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Single-Subject Research Designs
Reversal Designs. The most basic single-subject research design is the reversal design, also called the ABA design. During the first phase, A, a baseline is established for the dependent variable. This is the level of responding before any treatment is introduced, and therefore the baseline phase is a kind of control condition.
[PDF] Baseline study in environmental risk assessment: site-specific
DOI: 10.24425/aep.2022.142692 Corpus ID: 257907401; Baseline study in environmental risk assessment: site-specific model development and application @article{Alam2023BaselineSI, title={Baseline study in environmental risk assessment: site-specific model development and application}, author={Asifa Alam and Adeel Mahmood and Mahuammad Nawaz Chaudhry and Sajid Rashid and Noor Ul Safa and Huda ...
Describing the participants in a study
Describing the main features of the distribution of important characteristics of the participants included in a study is the first step in most papers reporting statistical analysis. It is important in establishing the generalisability of research findings, and in the context of comparative studies, flags the need for controlled analysis.
What is a Baseline Study?
What is a Baseline Study? - proposalforNGOs. For the donors it is very important to know what effect your intervention has on the target community. To be able to make any statement about this, you need a baseline study to have a data pool and to base any assumptions on stable ground.
Baseline Study
Project Baseline is a broad effort to map human health led by Verily Life Sciences (formerly Google Life Sciences), Alphabet, Inc.'s health sciences division, and was announced in the Wall Street Journal on July 24, 2014. It begins with the Project Baseline Study, which will collect phenotypic health data from approximately 10,000 participants over the course of at least four years.
Consumption of Olive Oil and Diet Quality and Risk of Dementia-Related
Baseline for this analysis was 1990, which is when the food frequency questionnaires (FFQs) first included information on olive oil consumption. ... Funding/Support: This study is supported by the research grant R21 AG070375 from the National Institutes of Health to Dr Guasch-Ferré. The NHS, NHSII and HPFS are supported by grants from the ...
Cardiometabolic Effects of Omnivorous vs Vegan Diets in Identical Twins
Table 1 presents baseline summary statistics by study group. For the primary analysis, we investigated differences between groups in the change from baseline to week 8 for LDL-C between vegan and omnivorous diets among identical twins. ... Prior research 42,43 has suggested that vegans have lower TMAO levels than meat or fish eaters because of ...
APOE4 homozygozity represents a distinct genetic form of ...
The study on APOE4 homozygosity indicates a genetic variant of Alzheimer's disease with early symptom onset and distinct biomarker progression, highlighting the need for specialized treatment ...
Describing Baseline Conditions: Suggestions for Study Reports
Adequate description of the. baseline conditions is necessary for evaluating the effects of independent variables, drawing generalizations from studies, and providing information for subsequent replication studies. Suggestions are made about the types of information to include when describing baseline. conditions in research reports.
Is checkworthiness generalizable? Evaluating task and domain ...
The study finds that there is a drastic reduction in comparison with the performance on the original dataset. Moreover, often the models are outperformed by the random baseline and training on one dataset has no or even a negative impact on the performance on the other datasets. This paper proposes that future research should abandon this task ...
Association of ultra-processed food consumption with all cause and
Objective To examine the association of ultra-processed food consumption with all cause mortality and cause specific mortality. Design Population based cohort study. Setting Female registered nurses from 11 US states in the Nurses' Health Study (1984-2018) and male health professionals from all 50 US states in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study (1986-2018). Participants 74 563 women ...
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Applied Sciences
To address the issue of data integrity and reliability caused by sparse vessel trajectory data, this paper proposes a multi-step restoration method for sparse vessel trajectory based on feature correlation. First, we preserved the overall trend of the trajectory by detecting and marking the sparse and abnormal vessel trajectories points and using the cubic spline interpolation method for ...
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Baseline studies are pivotal as part of the pre-intervention foundational activities, because they help in testing hypotheses and can be a point of reference in the formative stages of a project ...
The project initially commissioned a baseline to assess against post-project outcomes. ... The authors would like to acknowledge that the case study described in this paper was funded by Better Care Victoria and lead by Numurkah District Health Service. ... International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 11(5), 5170-5207 ...
The baseline study serves as a reference point against which progress can be measured and evaluated throughout the project cycle. The following are some of the specific purposes of a baseline study: Establishing a Baseline: The baseline study provides a starting point for monitoring and evaluating the impact of the intervention. It provides a ...
Before launching a project to train transporters, the freight logistics team at TMEA commissioned a training needs analysis, to identify current training providers and gaps. The consultant surveyed 649 transport operators, including drivers, mechanics, and administration staff from across the East African region.
A combined table reporting baseline characteristics is usually displayed, for the overall population and then separately for each group. The last column usually gives the P value for the comparison between study groups. In the conventional research model, the variables for which data are collected are limited in number.
Baseline measures can help you tell if you're using methods ... Figure out what your research results suggest about relationships between the problem(s) and the behaviors of the targeted group. Develop an action plan. Set a behavioral goal for the intervention; Study what knowledge and information you already have about the community and the ...
2. Plan for data collection (methodology) and management. As already discussed, the overall purpose of a baseline is to obtain reliable and useful data prior to a project start, which can then be used to monitor and evaluate the project. However, it is important to refine the purpose and scope of the baseline study.
Baseline studies are pivotal as part of the pre-intervention foundational activities, as they help in testing hypotheses and can be a point of reference in formative stages of a project in case the changes are bigger than what was assumed. ... • Originality/value of paper - Because baseline modeling holds substantial potential ...
In this study, we discuss the value of baseline data and share the experience and lessons learned from an academic-practice research partnership formed before construction to document baseline conditions. ... with validated site data as a baseline contributing to a more rigorous landscape performance study. The purpose of this paper is to share ...
Third, adequate description of baseline conditions is necessary if other investigators are to replicate studies. Horner et al. proposed three different research groups should study an independent variable and find it effective before sufficient data exist to conclude a practice has an adequate evidence base.Regardless of the extent to which such proposals are accepted, replication has a long ...
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Baseline information is useful at different phases in the project cycle - for early- stage planning, for intermediate monitoring and for final evaluation. ... It will stimulate and facilitate more baseline studies by SIDA. sunmsw INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY Evaluation Unit S-105 25 STOCKHOLM Tel: 08-728 51 OO ISBN 91 - 586 7183 8 ...
Despite the fact that it has long been known to be inappropriate to evaluate or present differences in baseline data of randomized controlled trials [ 2, 3 ], research papers presenting P values for underlying variables are easily found. According to a study conducted in 1997, half of the randomized controlled trials (50%) in leading journals ...
A Baseline study measures specific conditions after a project has been designed, based on the indicators stated in the log frame. It is an analysis of the current situation to identify the starting points for a programme or project. It looks at what information must be considered and analyzed to establish a baseline or starting point, against ...
Many randomized trials involve measuring a continuous outcome - such as pain, body weight or blood pressure - at baseline and after treatment. In this paper, I compare four possibilities for how such trials can be analyzed: post-treatment; change between baseline and post-treatment; percentage change between baseline and post-treatment and analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) with baseline score as ...
Welcome to the United Nations
Reversal Designs. The most basic single-subject research design is the reversal design, also called the ABA design. During the first phase, A, a baseline is established for the dependent variable. This is the level of responding before any treatment is introduced, and therefore the baseline phase is a kind of control condition.
DOI: 10.24425/aep.2022.142692 Corpus ID: 257907401; Baseline study in environmental risk assessment: site-specific model development and application @article{Alam2023BaselineSI, title={Baseline study in environmental risk assessment: site-specific model development and application}, author={Asifa Alam and Adeel Mahmood and Mahuammad Nawaz Chaudhry and Sajid Rashid and Noor Ul Safa and Huda ...
Describing the main features of the distribution of important characteristics of the participants included in a study is the first step in most papers reporting statistical analysis. It is important in establishing the generalisability of research findings, and in the context of comparative studies, flags the need for controlled analysis.
What is a Baseline Study? - proposalforNGOs. For the donors it is very important to know what effect your intervention has on the target community. To be able to make any statement about this, you need a baseline study to have a data pool and to base any assumptions on stable ground.
Project Baseline is a broad effort to map human health led by Verily Life Sciences (formerly Google Life Sciences), Alphabet, Inc.'s health sciences division, and was announced in the Wall Street Journal on July 24, 2014. It begins with the Project Baseline Study, which will collect phenotypic health data from approximately 10,000 participants over the course of at least four years.
Baseline for this analysis was 1990, which is when the food frequency questionnaires (FFQs) first included information on olive oil consumption. ... Funding/Support: This study is supported by the research grant R21 AG070375 from the National Institutes of Health to Dr Guasch-Ferré. The NHS, NHSII and HPFS are supported by grants from the ...
Table 1 presents baseline summary statistics by study group. For the primary analysis, we investigated differences between groups in the change from baseline to week 8 for LDL-C between vegan and omnivorous diets among identical twins. ... Prior research 42,43 has suggested that vegans have lower TMAO levels than meat or fish eaters because of ...
The study on APOE4 homozygosity indicates a genetic variant of Alzheimer's disease with early symptom onset and distinct biomarker progression, highlighting the need for specialized treatment ...
Adequate description of the. baseline conditions is necessary for evaluating the effects of independent variables, drawing generalizations from studies, and providing information for subsequent replication studies. Suggestions are made about the types of information to include when describing baseline. conditions in research reports.
The study finds that there is a drastic reduction in comparison with the performance on the original dataset. Moreover, often the models are outperformed by the random baseline and training on one dataset has no or even a negative impact on the performance on the other datasets. This paper proposes that future research should abandon this task ...
Objective To examine the association of ultra-processed food consumption with all cause mortality and cause specific mortality. Design Population based cohort study. Setting Female registered nurses from 11 US states in the Nurses' Health Study (1984-2018) and male health professionals from all 50 US states in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study (1986-2018). Participants 74 563 women ...
Undergrads Study Wildflower Growth; Conduct Native Bee Survey Estrella Mountain Community College (EMCC) STEM students are busy, busy bees having engaged in Undergraduate Research Experiences, or UREs this semester. Some of our Mountain Lions just wrapped up a study of wildflower growth across different soil types while others are conducting a native bee survey — two things that can't live ...
To address the issue of data integrity and reliability caused by sparse vessel trajectory data, this paper proposes a multi-step restoration method for sparse vessel trajectory based on feature correlation. First, we preserved the overall trend of the trajectory by detecting and marking the sparse and abnormal vessel trajectories points and using the cubic spline interpolation method for ...