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Introduction: Drug consumption is an ongoing social problem today. Intervention programs for the prevention of drug use by adolescents based on physical activity and sport have recently attracted a lot of attention, and the evaluation of such programs constitutes a multi-criteria decision-making problem that can be addressed using the decision analysis methodology..
Objective: The purpose of this article is to address the problem structuring stage by constructing a hierarchy of objectives that takes into account all key aspects related to the evaluation of sports-based prevention programs..
Methodology: The decision analysis methodology was followed..
Results: Th.
constructed hierarchy consists of four dimensions: i) the facilities where the program is to be developed, their versatility and management formulas; ii) the experience of the applicant organization; iii) the technical proposal, which includes the personnel working on the program, the program methodology, the methodology of the intervention sessions, the evaluation methodology and the program dissemination, and iv) the organization’s financial solvency and budget soundness. It also establishes the attributes indicating the extent to which the intervention programs achieve the different criteria under evaluation..
Conclusions: This paper could be used as a reference for institutions launching calls for proposals in this area to evaluate the quality of the proposals received. Additionally, thanks to this work, a customized decision support system (WEB-MAUT-DSS) will be available in the near future to facilitate the decision-making on intervention program evaluation and the analysis of the robustness of the results.
