Development and Scoring of a Survey on Public Health Accreditation Capacity.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Public health accreditation is a 7-step process that starts with a period of preapplication during which a health department assesses its readiness for accreditation. However, no tools with established reliability and validity that quantitatively measure a local health department's (LHD's) capacity for accreditation are available to complete this initial step. We developed and validated a survey to measure accreditation capacity for LHDs.

Methods

From January through April 2015, we administered a cross-sectional electronic survey instrument with 15 questions that tapped into domains of capacity for public health accreditation. We analyzed and grouped responses by using a confirmatory maximum likelihood factor analysis with oblique rotations. We assessed reliabilit

SUBMITTER: Whittington MD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7119249 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature