Advancing the argument for validity of the Alberta Context Tool with healthcare aides in residential long-term care.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Organizational context has the potential to influence the use of new knowledge. However, despite advances in understanding the theoretical base of organizational context, its measurement has not been adequately addressed, limiting our ability to quantify and assess context in healthcare settings and thus, advance development of contextual interventions to improve patient care. We developed the Alberta Context Tool (the ACT) to address this concern. It consists of 58 items representing 10 modifiable contextual concepts. We reported the initial validation of the ACT in 2009. This paper presents the second stage of the psychometric validation of the ACT.

Methods

We used the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing to frame our validity assessment. Data fro

SUBMITTER: Estabrooks CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3156800 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature