Other Resources

Sample Instruments

• Sample instruments
  • Pre-post participant survey: Assesses demographics, diabetes knowledge, diabetes distress, diabetes self-efficacy, diabetes attitudes and beliefs, social support, medication use, physical activity, healthy eating, food security, and other outcomes
  • Feedback forms:
    • Diabetes food pantry feedback form
    • DSMES feedback form
    • DSMES lower literacy feedback form
• Note: The survey and feedback forms above were used by one of the food banks involved in this project. They are shared here as examples and may or may not be appropriate for diabetes programs at other food banks.

Additional Tools

• Evaluation frameworks
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Program Evaluation Framework

  • RE-AIM: Welcome to RE-AIM and PRISM
• Resources from the Community Tool Box
  • Evaluating the Initiative
  • Introduction to Evaluation
  • Operations in Evaluating Community Interventions
  • Refining the Program or Intervention Based on Evaluation Research
• American Evaluation Association: Find an Evaluator
• Mathematica publication: Using a Culturally Responsive and Equitable Evaluation Approach to Guide Research and Evaluation
• MPHI: Is my Evaluation Practice Culturally Responsive?
• Better Evaluation: Culturally Responsive and Equitable Evaluation webinar
• Intake/screening questionnaire
  • Feeding America: Food Insecurity Screening Algorithm for Adults with Diabetes
• Food bank case studies
  • Feeding America: Food is Medicine project report