Advancing Mental Health Equality evaluation

The evaluation of the AMHE Collaborative is comprised of two parts: 

a) Meta-evaluation of the Collaborative QI programme 

The meta-evaluation provides data on the Collaborative overall. The three objectives are:

1. To describe the organisations involved in the AMHE QI collaborative
2. To describe the aims, primary drivers and change ideas tested
3. To evaluate the implementation, impact and success of the AMHE QI Collaborative model, specifically:

• What factors contributed to the success of the programme? 
• What were the challenges of the AMHE QI collaborative model?
• Are there commonalities among teams that saw success and teams that did not?
• What new approaches were used? How did any new approaches contribute to success?

b) Sub-team-specific outcome measurement 

The sub-team outcome measurement will look at the individual outcomes achieved by sub-teams, including:

•  Improvement initiatives employed
•  Success/failure of initiatives and change ideas
•  Factors contributing to success/failure

Analysis

• The characterisation of the organisations involved in the AMHE QI collaborative will be conducted using descriptive analysis
• The description of the aims developed and the change ideas tested will be performed using content analysis
• A range of quantitative and qualitative methods will be used to evaluate the implementation, impact and success of the AMHE QI Model including the use of:

• The Normalisation Measure Development (NoMAD) questionnaire
• The Model for Understanding Success in Quality (MUSIQ) tool
• Survey
• Focus groups