Rigorously evaluating community-based interventions for multiply marginalized populations is fraught with challenges under the best of circumstances. This manuscript describes the methodology chosen to evaluate an innovative model designed to help survivors of intimate partner violence obtain safe and stable housing. We justify the choice of evaluation design from a community psychology perspective and detail why we believe the multi-method, multi-source design, that also focuses on social context, will maximize ecological validity and, therefore, propel the scale-up of the intervention if it is found to be effective. Longitudinal data are being collected from program recipients over time, the advocates who worked with them, agency service records, and monthly documentation of agency resources on hand that can impact services provided. Special attention is focused on capturing contextual information that can impact program success. While randomized control trials are still too often heralded as “the gold standard” for measuring intervention effectiveness, we maintain that the current design, which was developed in partnership with key community stakeholders, holds more promise when evaluating many community-based programs.

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现实世界中的评估：创建旨在传达生态有效结果的严格研究的决策点和基本原理

在最好的情况下，严格评估针对多重边缘化人群的基于社区的干预措施充满挑战。这份手稿描述了评估一种旨在帮助亲密伴侣暴力幸存者获得安全稳定住房的创新模式所选择的方法。我们从社区心理学的角度证明评估设计的选择是合理的，并详细说明为什么我们相信多方法、多源设计，也关注社会背景，将最大限度地生态有效性，从而推动干预的扩大如果发现有效。随着时间的推移，正在从计划接受者、与他们合作的倡导者、机构服务记录以及可能影响所提供服务的机构资源的月度文档中收集纵向数据。特别注意捕获可能影响程序成功的上下文信息。虽然随机对照试验仍然经常被称为衡量干预有效性的“黄金标准”，但我们认为，与主要社区利益相关者合作开发的当前设计在评估许多基于社区的项目时更有希望。