Monitoring and evaluation of community interventions for viral hepatitis among migrants and refugees: a Delphi-based study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Migrants and refugees in Europe carry a disproportionate burden of chronic hepatitis B and C and face barriers accessing health systems. Community-based interventions can improve screening, prevention, and care, yet no framework exists to track their performance. This study aimed to generate a consensus set of indicators for monitoring and evaluating such interventions.

Methods

A scoping review of PubMed from January 2005 to June 2024 identified 70 studies and 275 candidate indicators. After removing redundancies, 38 primary and 17 additional indicators were submitted to a two-round online Delphi panel. Fourteen experts from six countries (five from Spain, three from the UK, two each from Italy and from Greece, and one each from Belgium and the USA) rated each ind

SUBMITTER: Pascucci D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12616579 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature