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Measuring Community Mobilization in the Seattle Minority Youth Health Project

Allen Cheadle

University of Washington

Edward Wagner

Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound

Carolyn Anderman

Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound

Mary Walls

Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound

Colleen McBride

Duke University Comprehensive Cancer Center

Michelle A. Bell

University of Washington

Richard F. Catalano

University of Washington

Eric Pettigrew

University of Washington

This article assesses the validity and reliability of the approach used to measure community mo bilization in the Seattle Minority Youth Health Project (MYHealth), a neighborhood-based pro gram to prevent drug use, violence, teen pregnancy, and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Two constructs were measured: neighborhood cooperation in solving problems, and sense of pride and identification with the neighborhood. The convergent validity of the measurement ap proach was assessed by comparing several independent measures of community mobilization generatedfrom surveys of key neighborhood leaders, youth, and parents. For the neighborhood cooperation construct, correlations were uniformly positive across measuresfrom different sur veys and statistically significant about a quarter of the time. The correlations for the neighbor hood pride construct were weaker and generally not statistically significant. Interrater reliabil ity was low for all of the surveys, possibly reflecting varying ideas about what community mobili zation meant among survey respondents.

Evaluation Review, Vol. 22, No. 6, 699-716 (1998)
DOI: 10.1177/0193841X9802200601
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