Frameworks used to evaluate community-based rehabilitation interventions: A scoping review
African Journal of Disability
| Field | Value | |
| Title | Frameworks used to evaluate community-based rehabilitation interventions: A scoping review | |
| Creator | Manig, Sarah M. Ennion, Liezel Rowe, Michael de Witte, Luc | |
| Description | Background: Community-based rehabilitation (CBR) interventions are important for improving the well-being of people with disabilities. However, there is no universally accepted framework for evaluating these interventions, which limits their effectiveness and integration into policy.Objectives: To explore theoretical frameworks used in evaluating CBR interventions, assessing their suitability, context-specific applicability and cultural relevance.Method: A scoping review methodology was employed to examine the literature. Databases searched included PubMed, CINAHL, EBSCOhost and Web of Science. Broad search terms and keywords used were CBR, analytical and/or methodological and/or theoretical and/or conceptual and/or evaluation framework, impact and evaluation. Only full-text articles written in English and published between 2000 and 2020 were included. Data were analysed using a narrative synthesis method.Results: No single framework has been widely recognised as the superior or most effective standard for evaluating CBR interventions. Instead, a combination of the CBR matrix and CBR guidelines was frequently used and adapted to be context-specific.Conclusion: While cultural relevance and context specificity are recognised as essential to the evaluation process – and measuring outcomes at the individual level is viewed as most appropriate – there remains a need for a certain level of standardisation.Contribution: The study highlights the need for context-specific and culturally relevant evaluation frameworks for CBR interventions, including appropriate outcome measures and/or evaluation instruments. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2025-07-30 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/ajod.v14i0.1546 | |
| Source | African Journal of Disability; Vol 14 (2025); 6 pages 2226-7220 2223-9170 | |
| Language | eng | |
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