1 • A Guide to Measuring Loneliness for Community Organisations 5 2 Why measure loneliness? When evaluating your service to reduce loneliness in the community you will need to be able to show service users, funding bodies and boards of management that your program or activity is making a real difference. [...] To be able to examine the potential impact of When this is not possible, it is preferable to use your service, you will need to have measures of the same method of presenting the questions and loneliness taken from each service user before collecting answers each time the measure is used. [...] Figure 1 Best-Practice Data Collection Data point 1 Data point 2 Optional data point 3 Baseline End of Follow-Up Data Service Data Data 10 1 • A Guide to Measuring Loneliness for Community Organisations Advantages and disadvantages of recommended measures Develop a common outcomes language It is important that you are aware of the strengths and weaknesses of the measures you use to Using consisten. [...] • The measures have a strong track record for use in the general community, with younger • The recommended measures of loneliness and older adults, and in a variety of settings. [...] 1 • A Guide to Measuring Loneliness for Community Organisations 11 4 The process of measurement: Tips before you begin 1 Planning and Mapping the preparation 3 process • Be aware of the relevant ethical principles, • Maintaining privacy: how and where will legislation, national/professional standards service users complete the measures? and whether ethical review is required for your measurement a.
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