Liz, Thanks for sharing. Its great to get such insights.
Toneas On Wednesday, 4 August 2021 at 03:00:55 UTC+10 [email protected] wrote: > Hi all, I'm reposting this because my first reply got deleted (spam > filter, I assume!) > > I wanted to add some reflections from the Anna Freud centre. We are very > excited about this development, for two main reasons: > > 1. It helps us to directly connect outcomes measurement to the evidence > base for what works for different types of problem. > > The interactive AIM sits within our tiddlywiki treatment manual, which > means that the suggested interventions list generated by the questionnaire > links directly into content on how to deliver the most appropriate > evidence-based intervention. We will easily be able to update this as the > evidence-base evolves. > > 2. It helps us to overcome a major barrier to using outcomes measures in > practice: feasibility/ practically > > Generally outcome measures like this are valued by health and social care > workers in principle, but the impracticality of scoring and recording the > data often results in low use of the measures in practice. > > We want to encourage services working with young people to use the AIM to > plan care and assess outcome for individual young people, but also to to > collate the data to evaluate their service as a whole. Here is a paper > evaluating outcomes of a young person's substance use service that looks at > a series of pre- and post-treatment AIM scores for 100 young people: > https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1359104521994875?journalCode=ccpa > > > Jeremy's interactive AIM, with its different options for saving the > results, makes it easy for workers to save the results for multiple > purposes - perhaps saving the .doc file to the young person's health > record, then copying the data into a spreadsheet capturing the whole team's > outcomes. > > Thanks, Jeremy! > > Liz > > On Friday, 16 July 2021 at 08:14:00 UTC+1 TiddlyTweeter wrote: > >> Ciao Jeremy >> >> Thanks for that! It helps clarify what I am trying to do! >> >> I will post an update note in the original thread about how I look at the >> issue now. >> >> Best wishes >> TT >> >> On Thursday, 15 July 2021 at 10:39:57 UTC+2 [email protected] wrote: >> >>> Hi TT >>> >>> Thank you – I was hoping you might find the translation mechanism >>> interesting too, does it fit your needs discussed in that other thread? >>> >>> You can try out the translation mechanism in the demo by switching the >>> language to "Spanish" in the sidebar tab; you'll get gobbledegook that >>> isn't Spanish, but it illustrates the difference. (Note that in the demo >>> only the UI is translated, the questions themselves there are only in >>> English). >>> >>> Best wishes >>> >>> Jeremy. >>> >>> Very interesting to see! Thanks. >>> I ran through the whole thing and completed all questions. It is a >>> seriously real application! :-) >>> >>> As a side note: The Anna Freud people designed the questions really >>> well. It is extremely difficult to design such questionnaires in a way that >>> makes sense in normal English AND can produce operational, quantitative, >>> meaningful, results. Hats off to them! >>> >>> Best wishes >>> TT >>> >>> On Wednesday, 14 July 2021 at 12:46:02 UTC+2 [email protected] wrote: >>> >>>> I’ve recently completed a small project for the Anna Freud National >>>> Centre for Children and Families in London (see https://annafreud.org/) >>>> to make an interactive questionnaire that has some interesting features: >>>> >>>> >>>> - Fairly sophisticated scoring of the answers to multiple choice >>>> questions >>>> - Generating spreadsheet files that can be downloaded and opened in >>>> Excel, and .DOC files that open in Microsoft Word >>>> - Copying spreadsheet data to the clipboard for pasting directly >>>> into Excel >>>> >>>> >>>> In its current form, the questionnaire is not directly reusable for >>>> other purposes, but I hope some of the techniques will prove useful to >>>> others. >>>> >>>> The context for this work is that the AFNCCF trains teams of care >>>> workers in Britain and around the world to work with the most troubled, >>>> hard to reach young people and their families. For more than a decade, >>>> they have been working on the Adolescent Integrative Measure (AIM) to help >>>> care workers make a systematic, objective record of the problems affecting >>>> a particular young person, and to make suggestions of the interventions >>>> that are indicated by the answers. By repeating the questionnaire after an >>>> interval of months, workers can track a young persons progress. For the >>>> last few years, the questionnaire has been filled out on paper but there >>>> has long been a desire to simplify the process by moving it online. >>>> >>>> You can try out the questionnaire in a demo here: >>>> >>>> https://federatial.github.io/afnccf-aim-questionnaire/ >>>> >>>> You can also see the questionnaire in AFNNCF's own site here: >>>> >>>> https://manuals.annafreud.org/ambit/#AIM%20Questionnaire >>>> >>>> The code is on GitHub: >>>> >>>> https://github.com/Federatial/afnccf-aim-questionnaire >>>> >>>> AIM is a series of multiple choice questions that measure the severity >>>> of a particular problem. The spectrum of responses is a heartbreaking >>>> reminder of the difficulties that young people can go through, and I’m >>>> very >>>> happy that our collective work on TiddlyWiki is helping people help people >>>> in these situations. >>>> >>>> >>>> Workers can also mark up to 6 of the questions as being “key problems” >>>> to indicate that they need particular attention: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> There is a simple visualisation of progress through the questionnaire >>>> as questions are answered: >>>> >>>> >>>> The questions are presented sequentially, with “next” and “previous” >>>> buttons to move between them, and a dropdown that enables jumping directly >>>> to a particular question. It also provides feedback of which questions >>>> have >>>> been completed, and which have been marked as key problems: >>>> >>>> >>>> Until all the questions are answered, the results are blocked: >>>> >>>> >>>> Note that if you scroll down you’ll find a button that answers all the >>>> questions instantly, making it easier to see the results. >>>> >>>> >>>> Once all the questions have been answered, the results are displayed in >>>> several different tabs: >>>> >>>> >>>> - *Focal*: Each suggested intervention is ranked in order of >>>> how severe the set of problems are (their averaged AIM scores) that >>>> indicate that particular intervention. This is good for focusing on the >>>> most severe problems >>>> - *Global*: Each suggested intervention is ranked according to how >>>> many different problems (that is AIM items scoring greater than 2) the >>>> young person has which that particular intervention is relevant for. >>>> This >>>> is good for covering the whole set of problems and causes >>>> - *Limit*: Limit suggested interventions only to those relevant for >>>> items identified as key problems >>>> >>>> >>>> The underlying calculations are probably the most complex that I have >>>> attempted in TiddlyWiki (particularly the global ranking), making >>>> extensive >>>> use of the mathematics operators and the ‘reduce’ and ‘filter’ operators. >>>> >>>> >>>> (Note that the suggested interventions link to missing tiddlers in the >>>> demo). >>>> >>>> The questions comprising the questionnaire and the user interface that >>>> presents them can all be translated into other languages which are >>>> automatically engaged when TiddlyWiki’s core language is switched: >>>> >>>> >>>> Answers are stored in temporary tiddlers that are not saved to the >>>> server, so several ways are provided to downloaded/exported them: >>>> >>>> - As a .DOC file that can be read by Microsoft Word >>>> - As a .CSV file that can be read by Microsoft Excel >>>> - Via the clipboard in a format that can be pasted directly into >>>> Microsoft Excel >>>> >>>> The technique used to generate a .DOC file is notable: it turns out >>>> that Microsoft Word will happily open HTML files if they have the >>>> extension >>>> .DOC. This makes generating a Word document just be a matter of exporting >>>> a >>>> static HTML file and giving it the correct extension for the download. >>>> >>>> >>>> The code is published as a plugin so it’s easy to see the component >>>> parts: >>>> >>>> >>>> Note that some of the new arithmetic features of v5.2.0 are used to >>>> calculate the results, but everything else should work on prior versions. >>>> >>>> Questions and comments welcome, >>>> >>>> Best wishes >>>> >>>> Jeremy. >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/cbd3d123-f65b-4205-8672-ba737c501acfn%40googlegroups.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/cbd3d123-f65b-4205-8672-ba737c501acfn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. 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