Assessing the sustainability capacity of evidence-based programs in community and health settings.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Within many public health settings, there remain large challenges to sustaining evidence-based practices. The Program Sustainability Assessment Tool has been developed and validated to measure sustainability capacity of public health, social service, and educational programs. This paper describes how this tool was utilized between January 2014 and January 2019. We describe characteristics of programs that are associated with increased capacity for sustainability and ultimately describe the utility of the PSAT in sustainability research and practice.

Methods

The PSAT is comprised of 8 subscales, measuring sustainability capacity in eight distinct conceptual domains. Each subscale is made up of five items, all assessed on a 7-point Likert scale. Data were obtained f

SUBMITTER: Bacon C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10012779 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature