Organizational readiness to change assessment (ORCA): Development of an instrument based on the Promoting Action on Research in Health Services (PARIHS) framework
Implementation SciencePublished 14 July 2009Open access
Christian D. Helfrich, Yu-Fang Li, NANCY SHARP, Anne Sales
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An Organizational Readiness to Change Assessment instrument (ORCA), organized according to the core elements and sub-elements of the PARIHS framework, is introduced and general support for the reliability and factor structure is found.
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We find general support for the reliability and factor structure of the ORCA. However, there was poor reliability among measures of evidence, and factor analysis results for measures of general resources and clinical champion role did not conform to the PARIHS framework. Additional validation is needed, including criterion validation.
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