Measuring the expected outcomes and the effectiveness of the activities mentioned above will take place through surveys and interviews in Washington County. A survey and interview will be available to clients of the Narcan Van. The community will also be able to participate in a survey related to the perceived impacts on residents of Washington County, Pennsylvania.
Tools. The survey for clients and community members will be used to measure how effective narcan is in preventing heroin-related deaths in Washington County. The survey will be voluntary, anonymous, and participation in it does not affect a client’s accessibility to services offered by the Narcan Van. The client survey asks participants for gender, age, and race. It also asks for the preferred drug choice, the route of administration, how many times the participants has witnessed an overdose, how many times they have overdosed, and if they have overdosed in the last three months. It also inquiries about intentional versus accidental overdoses. The survey then goes on to ask if the client was administered narcan and the general outcome of the overdose. The survey asks residents if they believe heroin overdoses have an impact on their daily life and if yes, then how. It also asks if heroin overdoses have a personal…show more content… There are several advantages to in-person interviewing (Chuck & Schutt, 2011). Some of those advantages include higher response rates than any other survey design, the order in which questions are read or answered can be controlled by the interviewer, both physical and social circumstances of interview can be monitored, and the interpretations of the questions can be clarified and proved (Chuck & Schutt, 2011). With this, the interview gains a better understanding of what the individual really wants to express during the interview (Chuck & Schutt,
