Reliability and Validity of the Assessment for Disaster Engagement with Partners Tool (ADEPT) for Local Health Departments

Abstract

Higher scores on all four dimensions of ADEPT for organizational respondents suggest that more activities were conducted for inter-organizational preparedness in those organizations than in organizations whose respondents had lower scores. This finding implies that organizations with higher ADEPT scores have more active relationships with CBOs/FBOs in the realm of preparedness, a key element for creating community resilience for emergencies and disaster preparedness.

A systematic review of components of community-based organisation engagement

“…The majority of studies ( n = 13) in this review were case studies. The remaining studies included quantitative design (Bloom et al., ; Chandra et al., ; Geist, ; Glik et al., ; Goytia et al., ; Patterson et al., ); qualitative design (Boutain & McNees, ; Burkhalter et al., ; Collignon, Men, & Tan, ; Honeycutt et al., ; Johnson et al., ; Radermacher, Karunarathna, Grace, & Feldman, ; Taras et al., ); systematic review (Frew et al., ); and mixed‐method design (Houston et al., ; Kakietek et al., ; Kelaher et al., ; Laborde, Brannock, Breland‐Noble, & Parrish, ; Riehman et al., ).…”

“…Another important aspect of partnership dynamics is trust between CBOs and stakeholders (Akintobi et al., ; Bloom et al., ; Caldwell et al., ; Laborde et al., ; Taras et al., ; Tisnado et al., ). Trust in partnerships can be built through effective, regular and bidirectional communication through means like: regular meetings, conference calls, webinars and online dialogue (Akintobi et al., ; Bloom et al., ; Caldwell et al., ; Collignon et al., ; Darling et al., ; Glik et al., ; Honeycutt et al., ; Houston et al., ; Johnson et al., ; Napoles et al., ; Singer et al., ; Tisnado et al., ). Trust can also be developed through transparency of research processes and procedures, and accountability between members of the partnership (Akintobi et al., ; Caldwell et al., ; Laborde et al., ; Singer et al., ).…”

“…The majority of studies (n = 13) in this review were case studies. The remaining studies included quantitative design (Bloom et al, 2009;Chandra et al, 2013;Geist, 2010;Glik et al, 2014;Goytia et al, 2013;Patterson et al, 2011); qualitative design (Boutain & McNees, 2013;Burkhalter et al, 2013;Collignon, Men, & Tan, 2001;Honeycutt et al, 2015;Johnson et al, 2006;Radermacher, Karunarathna, Grace, & Feldman, 2011;Taras et al, 2015); systematic review (Frew et al, 2014); and mixed-method design (Houston et al, 2002;Kakietek et al, 2013;Kelaher et al, 2014 High variability was found during critical appraisal of case studies, with scores ranging from 1 to 10 (Akintobi et al, 2012;Caldwell et al, 2015;Chaskin, Goerge, Skyles, & Guiltinan, 2006;Darling et al, 2015;LoConte, Weeth-Feinstein, Conlon, & Scott, 2013;McFarlane, Kahili, & Johnson, 2014;Napoles et al, 2014;Panapasa et al, 2012;Singer et al, 2015). Five studies met all the criteria (Chaskin et al, 2006;Darling et al, 2015;Gainforth, Latimer-Cheung, Moore, Athanasopoulos, & Martin Ginis, 2015;Jewett-Tennant et al, 2016;Woodruff et al, 2016).…”

“…The other qualitative studies lost points for the absence of data analysis process and study limitations (Collignon et al, 2001;Honeycutt et al, 2015;Johnson et al, 2006;Radermacher et al, 2011). Three quantitative studies met all the criteria from CASP tool (Chandra et al, 2013;Glik et al, 2014;Goytia et al, 2013). Points were deducted from quantitative studies that did not describe: the measures used and data collection strategy (Bloom et al, 2009;Geist, 2010;Patterson et al, 2011).…”

“…Community-based organisations (CBOs) are an important part of research and creating successful interventions (Blakeney et al, 2015;Clinical and Translational Science Awards Consortium, 2011). A CBO is defined as a public or private non-profit organisation that represents a community or a specific part of a larger community, and targets meeting a specific need in that community (Caldwell, Reyes, Rowe, Weinert, & Israel, 2015;Glik et al, 2014;National Network of Libraries of Medicine, 2015). CBOs have been shown to provide access to target clients and resources needed for research/interventions, serve as liaisons between researchers and the community, disseminate findings and troubleshoot unexpected challenges (Blakeney et al, 2015;Burkhalter et al, 2013;Caldwell et al, 2015;Houston, Harada, & Makinodan, 2002).…”