A Project Evaluation:Development of dental health promotion school-network, amphurThoen, Lampang province 2008-2012

Abstract

The objectives of this study is to express and evaluate the processes, outputs and outcomes of the project. Data was collected from five-years project documents (2008-2012) which were 1.group discussion notes 2.summary sheet from the project annual knowledge sharing 3.network activities participatory observation notes 4.dental health and eating behavior survey, Lampang province and 5. Results from researcher-designed questionnaire which was held in 2011 to collect main actors opinions and decide whether this project was worth to continue. The study results were of these :The school-network began in 2008 and were set into 4 groups, covered 38 schools (4,164 students). There were many review- cycles of dental health promotion process, output evaluation, gap analysis and continuing improvement every year. In the first and second year of process, AIC were used to make school-network operation plans. Then in the third year, Outcome Mapping was used to clarify roles and functions goals and strategies of each partners in the school-network.There  was many processes of leaderships empowerment and the operation plans of school-network group  were deployed concretely in this year. The forth and fifth year wasa period of dental health information in the easy way for all, and adding with  monitoring  process, school-network movement become more visible. Results from main actors questionnaire, they agreed to keep goingThoen school-network.Each group of school-network was different in level of participation. Outcomes of the project were : more coverage of direct health activities to students, more happiness of health teachers, increase of caries free and decrease of DMFT in 12 year old child, increase of every day tooth brushing behavior, every night tooth brushing behavior and decrease of snack eating. Key success factors to make a school-netwoks were continuing budget support, clear same goal, systematic dental health promotion strategy and information, knowledge sharing process and leadership capability of school-network group chief and committee.