Federal Public Health Workforce Development: An Evidence-Based Approach for Defining Competencies.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study reports the use of exploratory factor analysis to describe essential skills and knowledge for an important segment of the domestic public health workforce-Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) project officers-using an evidence-based approach to competency development and validation.

Design

A multicomponent survey was conducted. Exploratory factor analysis was used to examine the underlying domains and relationships between competency domains and key behaviors. The Cronbach α coefficient determined the reliability of the overall scale and identified factors.

Setting and participants

All domestic (US state, tribe, local, and territorial) grantees who received funding from the CDC during fiscal year 2011 to implement nonresearch preventio

SUBMITTER: Mumford K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5614504 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May-Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature