Evaluation of Control Your Well-being Project to Identify Actual Population Needs

A Proposal for an Evaluation of Control Your Well-being Project
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Control Your Well-being Project
Introduction
Control Your Well-being Project is a health and wellness program that seeks to improve the quality of life and health amongst those living with diabetes and hypertension through health education. Control Your Well-being Project is focused on the health and wellbeing of a person from a holistic perspective. Well-being Project seeks to create a friendly and caring environment where there is open communication, active listening, and increased emphasis on the importance of preventing illness and disease through natural and holistic care. 
Program Description and History
Control Your Well-being Project accounts for current and past history associated with increased challenges in managing hypertension and diabetes. The two chronic illnesses, which may often coexist, have been historically problematic due to their increasing prevalence, increased healthcare costs, rising morbidities, and mortality. Management of noncommunicable diseases such as diabetes and hypertension need consistent access to drugs, laboratory and diagnostic services, data, qualified and trained healthcare personnel, and an educated and well-empowered population (Correia et al.,2019). Control Your Well-being Project will strongly undertake collaborative patient education and link patients to the healthcare system for further consultations, treatment, referral, and diagnostic services. Control Your Well-being Project goals will form part of primary healthcare by preventing and helping control morbidity, premature death, and disabilities occasioned by diabetes and hypertension.
The proposal of this project is informed by significant gaps in the management of diabetes and hypertension. Even though there is significantly high awareness and knowledge about hypertension and diabetes, unhealthy lifestyle practices and irregular screening are frequent (Sina, Graffy & Simmons, 2018). The findings by Saleh, Ara & Afnan (2016) show that type 2 diabetes patients lack adequate knowledge on the understanding of diabetes, its predisposing factors, the blood glucose target levels, approaches of dealing with hypoglycemia, proper dietary practices, and basic approaches to foot care. There is sufficient evidence to show that patient education and ensuing lifestyle have immense gains in diabetes care, but the evidence is less in the context of enhancing hypertension care (Hassanein et al.,2021). Thus, there is a need to boost access to adequate, timely, accurate, and quality information about hypertension and diabetes that would assist the patient and community, in general, in adopting healthy behaviors. Control Your Well-being Project seeks to bridge these gaps by availing health education that reinforces appropriate behaviors that would help people cope with diabetes and hypertension. Education, the patients on ways of preventing and dealing with hypertension and diabetes, forms the primary activities of the Control Your Well-being Project.
The overall goals and outcomes of the Control Your Well-being Project are to strengthen diabetes and hypertension prevention efforts and to provide practical strategies to the patient with these diseases on optimal ways of coping with the disease process. These goals are measurable. Control Your Well-being Project will form groups that will engage in self-management approaches to controlling diabetes. Control Your Well-being Project will not work like the conventional education program that imparts disease-specific knowledge about exercise, diet, diagnostic tests, and medication but will engage in creating platforms that provide health information that will improve durable compliance to disease management and prevention strategies. Control Your Well-being Project is geared towards harnessing the motivational, emotional, and inspirations aspects to ensure acceptance of hypertension and diabetes, thereby leading to the promotion of coping strategies.
Stakeholder Engagement
Control Your Well-being Project will involve various stakeholders in assessing this plan in terms of need assessment, overall objectives, and strategy. Stakeholders represent people and organizations interested in this project and will invest and support the project. These stakeholders will actively participate in all evaluation stages of the program.
The first class of stockholders includes those who will be affected by the program. This category can involve hypertensive and diabetic patients or those at greater risk of these chronic illnesses, community members, and advocacy groups. The Control Your Well-being Project primarily targets hypertensive and diabetes patients and those who have a significant health risk. Thus, the target population involves people who are either obese, above 35 years of age or have been diagnosed with the two stated illnesses.
The second category of stakeholders entails those who will proactively participate in program operations from design to implementation. The selected stakeholders will include representatives from the target community or population, program staff, funding agencies, Physician and health care providers associations, organizational partners, and project management teams.
The final stakeholders comprise intended end-users of assessment or evaluation results. The users of evaluation findings will include the community, funding organizations, and partners. The end-uses will use the findings as a guideline for supporting the program in terms of resource allocation.
Stakeholder Engagement Plan
Stakeholder Group

Interest or Perspective

Role in the Evaluation

How and When to Engage

Patients and people at increased risk of diabetes and hypertension, community,
Patient advocacy groups

Patients and individuals at risk of diabetes and hypertension are the primary recipients of program services.

Support and advocate for changes that support the use of the evaluation findings to implement the project

They are engaged through mobilization, especially, they are introduced during the need evaluation or assessment stage.





Funding agencies and supporting partners

They are the core supporters of the program in terms of the mobilization of resources. They support the project through funding and authorizing the continuation or expansion of the program’s activities.

Their roles involve ascertaining healthcare gaps and estimating the resources required.

They are engaged throughout the program





Physicians, health care providers, patient educators such as nutritionists, nurses, and physical health coaches.

They provide legitimacy and credibility to the program.
They Implement the interventions that are critical evaluation, such as undertaking need assessment and collection of data.

Proactively undertake need assessment or evaluation.
Collate and present evaluation findings.

They are engaged thought the project





Project Management

Developing the mission, vision, purpose, and goals of the project.
Mobilizing support and creating partnerships

Oversight and coordination of the overall evaluation process

Throughout the project

Purpose and Logic Model
The purpose of the logical model is to guide overall crafting of the program’s framework and rationale behind the program. Control Your Well-being Project is on theatrical models of health promotion and disease prevention. Some various theories and models support the practice of health promotion and disease prevention programs, such as the Control Your Well-being Project. These theories and models provide logic and provide a philosophical and scientific foundation for implementing a healthy program. When identifying a theory to guide health promotion and disease prevention interventions is essential to consider various factor. Control Your Well-being Project will be assessed and implemented based on the theory of the Health Belief Model. This theoretical model can serve as a blueprint for health promotion and disease prevention programs because it provides the foundation for explaining and predicting individual changes in behavioral health patterns.
Health Belief Model
It is a frequently used model in understanding health behaviors. The core elements encapsulated in Health Belief Model revolved around individual beliefs regarding health conditions, which determines individual health-associated behaviors in terms of perceived susceptibility or perceived threat to sickness or disease, exposure to challenges that prompt action, perceived severity or beliefs on consequences, perceived benefits if one takes action, perceived barriers to action, and confidence to succeed self-efficacy (Saghafi-Asl, Aliasgharzadeh & Asghari-Jafarabadi, 2020). Thus, the Health Belief Model application in this project will involve gathering information through the needed health assessment to determine perceived health risk from the population, communicating such perceived health risks, and demonstrating action that would improve behaviors that limit perceived health risks. Based on this theoretical model, the evaluation exercise of the Control Your Well-being Project will focus on modifying factors, individuals’ health beliefs in terms of susceptibility, severity, barriers, and self-efficacy, and actions (Sina, Graffy, & Simmons, 2018).
The health belief model is among the most popular ones in health promotion projects because of its measurable impacts. The model guides disease prevention and health promotion programs by predicting individual changes to health behaviors. According to Hassanein et al. (2021), the first factor that influences human behaviors in health is beliefs. Using this model, the stakeholders must understand if the beliefs of the participants are right and support the recommended health behaviors. Some of the elements of belief that the model emphasizes include self-efficacy or the individual’s confidence in ability to succeed, exposure to factors that promote action, perceived benefits of some beliefs or behaviors, perceived severity of illnesses, and the perceived threat to sickness. Correia at al. (2019) noted that among diabetes and hypertension patients, the model can be employed to assess the participants’ position in their health-wellness continuum. Eventually, the practitioners can employ the belief assessment outcomes to condition the patient’s transition towards wellness through strategies such as promotion of self-care and encouragement of early diagnosis.
Evaluation Purpose
The purpose of the evaluation is to identify actual population needs through need health assessment identification of various factors such as modifiable factors and perceived health risks will justify the need to implement this Control Your Well-being Project. The finding from the evaluation will be used to justify the need for the project and be used to develop a blueprint of the implementation plan.
Logic Model Description
The logical model involving Health Belief Model helps in the identification of key resources that support program evaluation. A range of resources is needed to support the health program, such as Control Your Well-being Project. The resources that are required to support evaluations exercise includes financial resources, human resource, administrate expenditures, incentives, time and talent (Saleh, Ara, & Afnan, 2016). Other resources such as diagnostic tools include glucometers, weight measuring, and blood pressure reading machines are requi...