Preparing Country Presentations
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Preparing Country Presentations Session Guide Preparing Country Presentations SESSION GUIDE PURPOSE AND CONTENT The purpose of this session is to give you time to work in country groups to develop the outline of a proposal to present on the last day of the course. OBJECTIVES This session will develop your ability to: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Outline a problem faced in your country. List and select interventions to address the problem. Design a study to assess the intervention. Define outcome variables. Plan the analysis of data. Prepare a chart to display results. Prepare a Gantt chart. Prepare a budget. Make a presentation. PREPARATION The last two weeks have been preparation for this session. 1 SESSION GUIDE PREPARING COUNTRY PRESENTATIONS ACTIVITY Country Presentation Worksheet Based on the discussions concerning intervention selection and the points raised in this course, design a simple intervention to improve drug use. Answer the following questions: 1) What specific behaviors are a problem? 2) What are the most important motivations that cause the problem? a) b) c) 3) What constraints exist to prevent changes? a) b) c) 4) List some possible interventions to address this problem. a) b) c) d) 2 SESSION GUIDE PREPARING COUNTRY PRESENTATIONS 5) What sort of intervention would you select? Describe the intervention in detail. 6) What sort of study could you use to assess the intervention? 7) What would be your study and control groups? If no control group is possible, explain why not. 8) How will you select the intervention and control groups? 9) What will be your sample size? 3 SESSION GUIDE PREPARING COUNTRY PRESENTATIONS 10) What outcome variables will you compare? a) b) c) d) e) 11) How often will these variables be measured? How will you collect the data? 12) How will you analyze the data? 13) Produce a dummy table of the results. 4 SESSION GUIDE PREPARING COUNTRY PRESENTATIONS 14) Produce a dummy chart to show how you will present data. 15) How will the results of this intervention activity be publicized? Who will do it? What methods will be used? 5 SESSION GUIDE PREPARING COUNTRY PRESENTATIONS 16) Fill in a Gantt chart to show how the different activities will be scheduled. Project: Activities Label Description Period Duration Required Manpower: Available Manpower: Key: Activity Persons Required A-3 Planned Duration Slack 6 SESSION GUIDE PREPARING COUNTRY PRESENTATIONS 17) Produce an illustrative budget Personnel-------------Transport-------------Field Allowances----Other Direct Costs --Subtotal---------------Admin. Overhead---Grand Total----------- 7 SESSION GUIDE PREPARING COUNTRY PRESENTATIONS Project Date Budget Category 1.) Personnel Principle Investigator Research Associate(s) Consultants (statistics, sampling, etc.) Field Supervisor(s) FGD Moderator(s) FGD Recorder(s) Interviewers Data Collection Staff (Quant.) Surrogate Patients Review Panel (Indicator Std.) Secretarial Support Principal Investigator local currency units = U.S. $ 1.00 Unit Cost (local currency) Multiplying Factor Total Cost (local currency) /day /day /day /day /day /day /day /day /day /day days days days days days days days days days days /day / km days km (return) km (return) Public Transport Mini-bus Train / trip / trip Trips (return) Trips (return) Airfares Local International Travel (Present Results) / trip / trip Trips (return) Trips (return) / day / day / day / day / day / day / day / day days days days days days days days days / day days 2.) Transport Vehicles Rental Fuel 3.) Field Allowances (Food, lodging, incidentals) Principle Investigator Research Associate(s) Field Supervisor(s) FGD Moderator(s) FGD Recorder(s) Interviewers Data Collection Staff (Quant.) Surrogate Patients Presentation of Results (Overseas) 8 Total cost (US $) Total Cost (US $) SESSION GUIDE PREPARING COUNTRY PRESENTATIONS Project Date Budget Category 4.) Other Direct Costs Stationary Supplies Paper Envelopes Postage Typewriter ribbons Communications Telephone (internal) FAX expenses Interview and FGD Materials tape recorder tapes & batteries FGD refreshments extension cord Survey Materials Surveyor training materials Printing of Survey Instruments Clipboards & bags for interviewers "show card" materials (e.g., cardboard, pictures) Computing Expenses Purchase of computer & printe Disks, printer ribbon Printer Paper Data Entry & Verification Services Software (list packages needed) Intervention Materials Printing of manuals Design of Intervention Materials Printing of Materials Outside Services Computer training Typing Transcription, translation Dissemination of Results Graphics for Report (OH/slides) Photocopying Report Meetings to Disseminate Results Misc Equipment and Supplies Calculators Reference books & manuals Lab reagents & supplies SUBTOTAL ADMINISTRATIVE FEES, OVERHEADS GRAND TOTAL Principal Investigator local currency units = U.S. $ 1.00 Unit Cost (local currency) Multiplying Factor / / / / ream 100 letter ribbon Total Cost (local currency) reams envelopes letters ribbons / month / month months months each total / group each groups cords /surveyor /form /team /Interviewer /Interviewer interviewers forms reams interviewers interviewers each unit total /box (2500) /form /package units /manual total each manuals /participant /page /page participants pages pages /graph, slide /page /meeting pages meetings boxes forms packages each total calculators of Total 9 Total cost (US $) Total Cost (US $)
