Community Readiness Within Systems of Care: The Validity and Reliability of the System of Care Readiness and Implementation Measurement Scale (SOC-RIMS)

Establishing a system of care requires communities to identify ways to successfully implement strategies and support positive outcomes for children and their families. Such community transformation is complex and communities vary in terms of their readiness for implementing sustainable community int...

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Published in:The journal of behavioral health services & research 2016, Vol.43 (1), p.18-37
Main Authors: Rosas, Scott R., Behar, Lenore B., Hydaker, William M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Care
Child
Child Health Services
Children
Children & youth
Cluster analysis
Collaboration
Communities
Community
Community and Environmental Psychology
Community Mental Health Services
Concept mapping
Feedback
Genetic transformation
Health care delivery
Health Informatics
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Health Psychology
Health services
Humans
Intervention
Mapping
Measurement
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Mental Disorders - therapy
Mental health
Mental health care
Planning
Psychiatry
Psychometrics
Public Health
Quality of care
Quantitative psychology
Readiness
Reliability
Reproducibility of Results
Residence Characteristics
Rims
Social Support
Studies
Transformation
Validity
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Summary:Establishing a system of care requires communities to identify ways to successfully implement strategies and support positive outcomes for children and their families. Such community transformation is complex and communities vary in terms of their readiness for implementing sustainable community interventions. Assessing community readiness and guiding implementation, specifically for the funded communities implementing a system of care, requires a well-designed tool with sound psychometric properties. This scale development study used the results of a previously published concept mapping study to create, administer, and assess the psychometric characteristics of the System of Care Readiness and Implementation Measurement Scale (SOC-RIMS). The results indicate the SOC-RIMS possesses excellent internal consistency characteristics, measures clearly discernible dimensions of community readiness, and demonstrates the target constructs exist within a broad network of content. The SOC-RIMS can be a useful part of a comprehensive assessment in communities where system of care practices, principles, and philosophies are implemented and evaluated.
ISSN:1094-3412
1556-3308
DOI:10.1007/s11414-014-9401-3