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Short Program Sustainability Assessment Tool (PSAT)

Qualitative/Quantitative:
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  • Quantitative

Type of Instrument:
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  • Survey

Number of Items:
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24

Subscale Information:
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Environmental support (3)
Funding stability (3)
partnerships (3)
organizational capacity (3)
program evaluation (3)
program adaptation (3)
communications (3)
strategic planning (3)

Language Availability:
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  • English

Brief Description:
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This tool will enable you to assess your program’s current capacity for sustainability across a range of specific organizational and contextual factors. Your responses will identify sustainability strengths and challenges. You can then use results to guide sustainability action planning for your program. This shorter version of the PSAT can help address respondent burden while maintaining reliability.

Citing Literature - Development/Original:
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Luke, D. A., Calhoun, A., Robichaux, C. B., Elliott, M. B., & Moreland-Russell, S. (2014). The Program Sustainability Assessment Tool: a new instrument for public health programs. Preventing chronic disease, 11, 130184. https://doi.org/10.5888/pcd11.130184. PMID: 24456645 PMCID: PMC3900326.

Citing Literature - Empirical Use/Application:
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Bao, L., & Moretti, M. M. (2023). eConnect: implementation and preliminary evaluation of a virtually delivered attachment-based parenting intervention during COVID-19. Attachment & human development, 25(2), 272–288. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616734.2023.2179574. PMID: 37014110.

Website:
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Attachments:
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Version:
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2023

Related Instrument:
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  • Program Sustainability Tool (PSAT)
  • Intended Focus

      Levels of Data Collection:
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      • Individual (Patient, Community Member)
      • Implementer
      • Organizational
      • Community
      • System
      • Policy

      Intended Priority Population:
      information tooltip image Intended priority population from whom data are collected using the assessment instrument

      • Community Members/Patients
      • Researcher/Evaluator
      • Clinician
      • Administrator
      • Public Health Practitioner
      • Teacher/Trainer
      • Employer
      • Program Staff
      • Other Partners

      Intended Priority Setting:
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      • Clinical Outpatient
      • Clinical Inpatient
      • Residential Care
      • Community Organization
      • Public Health Agency
      • School
      • Workplace
      • Social Services

      Policy:
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      Equity Focus:

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  • Psychometric Properties

      Scoring:
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      Yes

      Norms:
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      Responsiveness:
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      Validity:
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      Reliability:
      information tooltip image The extent to which results are consistent results over time, across raters, across settings, or across items intended to measure the same thing.

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      Factor Analysis:
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  • Pragmatic Properties

      Time to Administer:
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      Secondary Data:

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      Cost:
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      Free

      Literacy:
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      Yes

      Interpretation:
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      Training:
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      Resources Required to Administer:
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      None/Low

      User Guidance:
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      • Guidance to Administer
      • Guidance to Analyze

      Obtrusiveness:
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      • Medium: Asyncronous collection of data

      Interactivity:
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  • Assessment Instrument Characteristics

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