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Development of Scales Measuring the Capacity of Community-Based Initiatives

Michele Lempa, DrPH1, Robert M. Goodman, PhD2*, Janet Rice, PhD3, Adam B. Becker, PhD, MPH4

1 Center for Evaluation and Research, Nemours Health and Preventive Services, Newark, Delaware.
2 Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
3 Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana.
4 Louisiana Public Health Institute, New Orleans.

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: rmg16{at}pitt.edu.


  Abstract

This article describes the development of two measures for the capacity of local public health initiatives. Data obtained from a qualitative study of eight community-based initiatives served as the basis for the development of a survey instrument. It was administered to a national sample of both leaders and nonleaders of 291 such initiatives. Because survey results for leaders and nonleaders differed, results could not be combined into a single data set for analysis. Results for each data set were analyzed by employing exploratory principal components and factor analyses. A 44-item, six-factor scale resulted for leaders and a 38-item, five-factor scale resulted for nonleaders. The high degree of overlap (22 items) between the two scales resulted in a combined 60-item instrument that can be administered to both leaders and nonleaders but analyzed separately.

Key Words: community capacity, social protective factors, community health initiatives, community health measures

First published on December 15, 2006, doi:10.1177/1090198106293525

Health Education & Behavior 2008;35:298.

A more recent version of this article appeared on June 1, 2008

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