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A Survey On The Health Bus Staff Essay

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The Health Bus staff collects quantitative data including client demographics, proportion of people by location and time of day, types of conditions presented and treatment interventions provided (The Australian College of Ambulance Professionals, 2009). Hence, this evaluation will leverage on the administrative data since the data is collected routinely and readily available. The researcher will review the various files and statistics that SHR kept from August 2008 to August 2016 and use the administrative data to determine the demographics of the people that have visited the health bus and the conditions they presented and received treatment for. Client Surveys: A survey will be used because it is an ideal method to reach a large number of respondents. A survey was similarly used to evaluate the Mobile Access Project in Vancouver (Janssen, Gibson, Bowen, Spittal, & Petersen, 2009) and is an ideal method to determine coverage of a community based intervention (Callaghan-Koru et al., 2013). The self-administered survey will consist of closed ended questions to measure client satisfaction and determine the services clients received. An initial draft of the survey will be pre-tested with 30 participants as done in the Mobile Access Project (Janssen et al., 2009) and the researcher will modify the questions based on feedback prior to administering it to all participants. Focus Groups: The focus groups will provide valuable insight on clients’ perceptive on if the Health Bus

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