2023 · Study protocol · German

Evaluation des wissenschaftsbasierten kommunalen Präventionssystems Communities That Care: Studiendesign und Baseline-Äquivalenz intermediärer Outcomes

Röding, D., Reder, M., Soellner, R., Birgel, V., Stolz, M., Groeger-Roth, F., & Walter, U.

Röding, D., Reder, M., Soellner, R., Birgel, V., Stolz, M., Groeger-Roth, F., & Walter, U. (2023). Evaluation des wissenschaftsbasierten kommunalen Präventionssystems Communities That Care: Studiendesign und Baseline-Äquivalenz intermediärer Outcomes. Prävention und Gesundheitsförderung, 18(3), 316–326. doi.org/10.1007/s11553-022-00972-y

Summary

German-language paper in Prävention und Gesundheitsförderung (vol. 18, 2023, pp. 316–326; online 2022) presenting the design of the CTC-EFF study and its first results on baseline equivalence. CTC translates prevention science into municipal practice through training and tools, with citizen participation, cross-sector collaboration, science-based prevention, monitoring and quality development as core elements, and US findings suggest its effects run through five intermediate outcomes. The study is quasi-experimental: 21 municipalities introducing CTC and 21 comparison municipalities matched a priori on demographic, economic and crime-statistics characteristics. In 2021, 192 municipal key informants were surveyed and the groups compared bivariately on eight sociodemographic characteristics and on ratings of prevention collaboration, cross-sector cooperation, financial support, public support and adoption of science-based prevention. The groups did not differ significantly except in the share with a university entrance qualification (86% vs 96%), and most intermediate outcomes were rated alike; the exception was adoption of science-based prevention, where intervention municipalities had a small lead that the authors consider plausible because they had already begun training and implementation before the survey. Matching therefore largely achieved baseline equivalence.