Facilitators and barriers to monitoring and evaluation at syringe service programs.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Syringe services programs (SSPs) provide harm reduction supplies and services to people who use drugs and are often required by funders or partners to collect data from program participants. SSPs can use these data during monitoring and evaluation (M&E) to inform programmatic decision making, however little is known about facilitators and barriers to collecting and using data at SSPs.

Methods

Using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR), we conducted 12 key informant interviews with SSP staff to describe the overall landscape of data systems at SSPs, understand facilitators and barriers to data collection and use at SSPs, and generate recommendations for best practices for data collection at SSPs. We used 30 CFIR constructs to develop indivi

SUBMITTER: Healy E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11351253 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature