Measuring Organizational Readiness for Implementing Change in Primary Care Facilities in Rural Bushbuckridge, South Africa.

ABSTRACT: Meaningful gains in health outcomes require successful implementation of evidence-based interventions. Organizations such as health facilities must be ready to implement efficacious interventions, but tools to measure organizational readiness have rarely been validated outside of high-income settings. We conducted a pilot study of the organizational readiness to implement change (ORIC) measure in public primary care facilities serving Bushbuckridge Municipality in South Africa in early 2019. We administered the 10-item ORIC to 54 nurses and lay counsellors in 9 facilities to gauge readiness to implement the national Central Chronic Medicine Dispensing and Distribution (CCMDD) programme intended to declutter busy health facilities. We used exploratory factor analysis (EFA) to identify facto

SUBMITTER: Leslie HH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9808169 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature