Novel Methods to Assess the Military's Evolving Prevention Capabilities: Development and Pilot Test of the On-Site Installation Evaluation Process
Joie D. Acosta
Bok Engelsk 2023
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| Utgitt | RAND Corporation , 2023
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| Opplysninger | Service members experience a variety of harmful behaviors, such as sexual assault, sexual harassment, domestic abuse, and suicide, that can affect their overall health and quality of life and be detrimental to force readiness. While response and treatment are vital services to address these harms, a robust prevention system is also needed. The Department of Defense (DoD) asked RAND Corporation researchers to develop a prevention capabilities assessment process for use across the active and reserve forces and to pilot the process during visits at 20 installations that were at higher risk for, or had a greater number of protective factors to mitigate, these harmful behaviors. This report describes how the prevention capabilities assessment process was developed, pilot tested, and assessed for validity. The metrics assessed prevention capabilities in nine areas covering the extent to which military installations prioritized, were prepared to promote, or are currently promoting integrated primary prevention and efforts to create healthy and protective environments and are engaging with service members around these efforts. In pilot tests, Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) leaders, researchers, and some installation staff found the metrics beneficial in terms of capturing and providing useful and nuanced information about prevention practices and areas for growth, and the analyses generally supported the validity of the metrics. Moving forward, DoD should continue to validate and refine these metrics as prevention efforts evolve and grow. These metrics, as part of an integrated process of risk identification and assessment, will help DoD track its prevention capability.
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