Erschienen in:
01.06.2009 | Original Paper
The State Health Authority Yardstick (SHAY)
verfasst von:
Molly T. Finnerty, Charles A. Rapp, Gary R. Bond, David W. Lynde, Vijay Ganju, Howard H. Goldman
Erschienen in:
Community Mental Health Journal
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Ausgabe 3/2009
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Abstract
State mental health authorities have a leadership role in implementing evidence-based practices (EBPs), but few instruments are available to assess the impact of this role. We describe the development of the State Mental Health Authority Yardstick (SHAY), a behaviorally anchored instrument designed to assess state-level facilitating conditions associated with successful implementation of EBPs in community mental health centers. The SHAY assesses the SMHA role in seven domains: Planning, Financing, Training, Leadership, Policies
and Regulations, Quality
Improvement, and
Stakeholders. Preliminary evidence from the National Evidence-Based Practices Project partially supports the construct and criterion-oriented validity of this instrument for rating state-level activities supporting or blocking the implementation of evidence-based practices.