CHES Practice Test 15

Evaluation planning for an after-school vaping prevention program

A county health department is starting an evaluation of its after-school vaping prevention program for middle school students. The health education specialist has met with school staff, parents and youth advisors to learn about the program's history, community priorities, and the resources and time available for evaluation; the funder requires a report by June.

The team will next draft a logic model linking the program's eight peer-led sessions to expected gains in refusal skills and intentions not to vape. For the student survey, the team plans to use an existing refusal self-efficacy scale that was validated with high school students in another region.