North Dakota Department of Health – Wyoming Survey & Analysis Center

Evaluation of the 2023 North Dakota Strategic Prevention Framework Partnerships for Success

Eric Canen — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 21:03:34 +0000

The 2023 North Dakota Strategic Prevention Framework Partnerships for Success (SPF-PFS) Evaluation and Data Technical Assistance Project is funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and administered in collaboration with the North Dakota Department of Health and Human Services. The Wyoming Survey & Analysis Center (WYSAC) at the University of Wyoming serves as the independent evaluator and data analyst for the project, tasked with assessing performance and providing technical assistance around data to the state and funded communities.
This initiative aims to reduce alcohol misuse and its consequences among underserved populations, including college students, active-duty military personnel, and children of parents with mental illness (COPMI). Using SAMHSA’s Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF), the project builds prevention capacity supporting up to five subrecipient communities that will implement evidence-based strategies tailored to local needs.
WYSAC’s evaluation plan includes both process and outcome assessments, focusing on the effectiveness of the implemented strategies and their impact on substance use behaviors and health outcomes. Data collection efforts will utilize surveys such as the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) and National College Health Assessment (NCHA), along with administrative data sources like alcohol-related crime and vehicle crash reports. The evaluation results will guide ongoing prevention efforts and ensure alignment with state objectives and SAMHSA’s national prevention goals.

Evaluation of State Efforts to Help Adults Prevent and Manage Diabetes, Heart Disease, and Stroke

Laran H. Despain — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 23:39:48 +0000

Since 2018, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) grant Improving the Health of Americans through Prevention and Management of Diabetes and Heart Disease and Stroke (CDC-DP18-1815) has funded state efforts to help adults prevent and manage diabetes, heart disease, and stroke. The CDC has required states conduct an evaluation of this work. WYSAC has contracts to do this evaluation for three states: North Dakota, Wyoming, and New Mexico.

Under contract with each state, WYSAC is evaluating this CDC-funded work by creating annual evaluation plans, forming evaluation indicators for process and outcome measures, and reporting progress on the evaluation indicators. Over the course of the evaluation, WYSAC will assess the approach, efficiency, effectiveness, sustainability, and impact of each state’s efforts.

The Division of Health Promotion at the North Dakota Department of Health been working with health care providers and other less traditional partners to help North Dakota residents prevent and manage type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol. WYSAC will be helping the Division examine the effectiveness of working with new partners in this work.

WYSAC will work with North Dakota and the Chronic Disease Prevention Program at the Wyoming Department of Health to evaluate their work in the context of working in very rural states with severe winter weather, a population dispersed across large areas with few towns, and limited infrastructure for telehealth services. Although the work is not a direct continuation, WYSAC’s work in Wyoming is related to the previous evaluation of Wyoming’s CDC-funded State Public Health Actions to Prevent and Control Diabetes, Heart Disease, Obesity and Associated Risk Factors and Promote School Health.

WYSAC does similar work for the New Mexico Department of Health, described here.

Evaluation of North Dakota’s Efforts to Help Oral Health Professionals Prevent Heart Disease

Laran H. Despain — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 21:54:11 +0000

Since 2018, the Oral Health Program at the North Dakota Department of Health has had funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) grant State Actions to Improve Oral Health Outcomes (DP-1810). The Division has been working with oral health care providers and other partners to help North Dakota residents prevent and manage high blood pressure through improved screening and referral processes.

Under contract with the Program, WYSAC is evaluating this CDC-funded work by creating annual evaluation plans, forming evaluation indicators for process and outcome measures, and reporting progress on the evaluation indicators.

Over the course of the evaluation, WYSAC will assess the approach, effectiveness, and impact of the program’s efforts with process and outcome evaluation work.

This project has some overlap with WYSAC’s evaluation of North Dakota’s efforts to help adults prevent and manage diabetes, heart disease, and stroke because both North Dakota programs work with some of the same oral healthcare providers.

Related Publications:

[Fact Sheet] Blood Pressure Pilot Project Results, Year 1

[Fact Sheet] Blood Pressure Pilot Project Results, Year 2

2016 North Dakota Adult Tobacco Survey

Bistra Anatchkova — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 12:38:52 +0000

WYSAC is currently in the field with the North Dakota Adult Tobacco Survey (ATS). WYSAC has conducted that survey three times before– in 2009, 2012, and 2015. The survey is conducted using the telephone interview mode of data collection, following strict CDC protocols. The survey uses a dual sampling frame to include both landline and cell phone numbers in proportions to reflect the representation of cell phone only and cell phone mostly households in the geography of interest. The sample is disproportionately stratified by four geographic regions. Over 1600 interviews are collected during each iteration of the survey.

North Dakota Central Valley Youth Survey Resource Center

Jessica Schillinger — Fri, 01 May 2015 21:04:51 +0000

The Central Valley Youth Survey website is an online resource center for partners of the North Dakota Central Valley Youth Survey. CVYS is a local effort to better understand youth alcohol and drug use in Stutsman and Logan Counties in North Dakota.

The survey monitors the percent of students that have used or are currently using alcohol, and/or other drugs. It also measures a wide variety of attitudes, beliefs, and perceptions related to alcohol and other drugs.

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