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Alternative Title:
Prev Chronic Dis
Publisher's site:
http://dx.doi.org/10.5888/pcd14.160281
Personal Author:
Calancie, Larissa ; Allen, Nicole E. ; Weiner, Bryan J. ; Ng, Shu Wen ; Ward, Dianne S. ; ... More +
Calancie, Larissa ; Allen, Nicole E. ; Weiner, Bryan J. ; Ng, Shu Wen ; Ward, Dianne S. ; Ammerman, Alice Less -
Description:
A large number of food policy councils (FPCs) exist in the United States, Canada, and Tribal Nations (N = 278), yet there are no tools designed to measure their members' perceptions of organizational capacity, social capital, and council effectiveness. Without such tools, it is challenging to determine best practices for FPCs and to measure change within and across councils over time. This study describes the development, testing, and findings from the Food Policy Council Self-Assessment Tool (FPC-SAT). The assessment measures council practices and council members' perceptions of the following concepts: leadership, breadth of active membership, council climate, formality of council structure, knowledge sharing, relationships, member empowerment, community context, synergy, and impacts on the food system. All 278 FPCs listed on the Food Policy Network's Online Directory were recruited to complete the FPC-SAT. Internal reliability (Cronbach's α) and inter-rater reliability (AD, rWG(J), ICC [intraclass correlations][1], ICC[2]) were calculated, and exploratory and a confirmatory factor analyses were conducted. Responses from 354 FPC members from 94 councils were used to test the assessment. Cronbach's α ranged from 0.79 to 0.93 for the scales. FPC members reported the lowest mean scores on the breadth of active membership scale (2.49; standard deviation [SD], 0.62), indicating room for improvement, and highest on the leadership scale (3.45; SD, 0.45). The valid FPC-SAT can be used to identify FPC strengths and areas for improvement, measure differences across FPCs, and measure change in FPCs over time.
Subject:
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Data Collection
Decision Making, Organizational
Health Planning Councils
Humans
Nutrition Policy
Organizational Culture
Reproducibility Of Results
Tools And Techniques

Source:
Prev Chronic Dis. 14.
Pubmed ID:
28253474
Pubmed Central ID:
PMC5338598
Document Type:
Journal Article
Funding:
U48 DP001944/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHS/United States ; UL1 TR001111/TR/NCATS NIH HHS/United States
U48 DP001944/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHS/United States ; UL1 TR001111/TR/NCATS NIH HHS/United States Less -
Place as Subject:
United States
Collection(s):
Preventing Chronic Disease
Main Document Checksum:
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