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SMART GOALS EXPLANATION
Kyle Savitz
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Many of you are struggling with assessment 1 and developing the required SMART goals for your
health promotion plan. Please utilize the announcement below prior to submitting your
assessment.
Developing SMART goals:
SPECIFIC: Goals will answer who will be responsible, what is to be achieved, location of the
activity, and why it is important or beneficial? MEASURABLE. Goals must specify criteria for
measuring progress against
those goals. It helps you to stay on track, reach milestones and motivate the
stakeholders. ATTAINABLE. Setting attainable goals serve motivate the individual/group.
RELEVANT. Key stakeholders must see how a specific goal is relevant to them.
TIMELY. To be most effective, goals must be structured around a specific time frame to motivate
individuals to begin working on their goals.
After developing a mutually agreed upon goal, SMART objectives are developed to help guide
activities. Objectives help to determine whether the goals have been achieved and if revisions
need to be made for future educational sessions.
Objectives need to be
SPECIFIC: Objectives need to be concrete, detailed, and well defined so that you know
what exactly is going to occur and what to expect
Measurable: A way to determine how the objective was met or needs revision.
Achievable: The objective must be appropriate and feasible for those involved
Ask: What's the patient's learning style? For example, does the patient prefer reading printed
materials, viewing audiovisual materials, or watching demonstrations?
Realistic: It must take into consideration constraints such as resources, personnel, cost,
educational level, learning style, reading and comprehension level. What language do they
speak? How much does the individual/group like to know?
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Ask : Can a patient read and comprehend instructions or follow directions? Do they prefer reading
printed materials, viewing audiovisual materials, or demonstrations?
Time-Bound: A time frame helps to set boundaries around the objective.
Ask: How long will it take for the objective to be attained. Objectives may be process or
outcome oriented.
Outcome objectives can be short-term, intermediate, or long-term.
Short-term outcome objectives can be achieved after implementing certain activities or
interventions. Change may be in cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (demonstration), and
valued/attitude).
Intermediate outcome objectives provide a sense of progress toward reaching the long-term
objectives. This could be behavior and policy change.
Long-term objectives. Changes occur after the program has been implemented. It may take
more than a month. This can be changes in mortality, morbidity, and quality of life.
Example of a SMART Goal:
Prepare the stakeholders in the community for a disaster
Example of a SMART objective:
By the end of the program, the stakeholders will verbalize at least 5 supplies need to be in their
family disaster kit.
Example of Evaluation of SMART objective: The participants correctly verbalized 5 supplies need
to be in their family disaster kit. Please review the following CDC link as a guide to develop
SMART objectives
https://www.cdc.gov/phcommunities/resourcekit/evaluate/smart_objectives.html
(https://www.cdc.gov/phcommunities/resourcekit/evaluate/smart_objectives.html)
This site has a
template for you to use as a
guide.
https://www.cdc.gov/phcommunities/resourcekit/resources.html#smart_objectives
(https://www.cdc.gov/phcommunities/resourcekit/resources.html#smart_objectives)
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