To establish measurable outcomes for each selected strategy, identify the intervening variable(s) being addressed, note the strategy you’ve chosen, and list the anticipated short-term, intermediate, and long-term outcomes.
For example:
- Intervening variables: Poor parental monitoring and supervision of children, lack of clear parental disapproval of substance use
- Strategy: Communication campaign aimed at reaching 90 percent of parents of eighth grade students with information on the importance of communicating the harms of opioid misuse to their children
- Outcomes:
- Short-term: Parents of eighth grade students believe that opioid misuse is harmful
- Intermediate: Parents of eighth-graders clearly communicate disapproval of opioid misuse to their children
- Long-term: Decreased rates of opioid misuse among eighth grade youth
- A short-term outcome is a change in the target group who received your strategy
- An intermediate outcome is a change in the intervening variable
- A long-term outcome is the ultimate impact of the strategy on the issue identified in your problem statement
Tool
MOAPC Planning Tool