title: Goal attainment scaling as a tool to enhance quality in community-based health promotion.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Goal attainment scaling (GAS) is an individual approach for measuring changes in clinical interventions. We adopted GAS as a tool for community-based health promotion to support practitioners in formulating and monitoring their intervention goals.
  
  
  METHODS
  Eleven regional health promotion networks were invited to set project-specific goals, following Kiresuk and Sherman's rules for goal setting. Follow-up interviews on goal attainment were conducted twenty-one months later. In addition, each network was interviewed on usage and applicability.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In total, 35 goals were set. The expected outcomes were reached for the majority of projects.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  GAS has been proven to be a useful instrument for quality assurance as it helps with setting and monitoring goals and sub-goals.
authors.affiliation: Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany. petra.kolip@uni-bielefeld.de
authors.forename: Petra
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kolip
authors.forename: Ina
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Schaefer
mesh_terms: D019058:Community Networks / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005858:Germany; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D009042:Motivation; D009937:Organizational Objectives