Brighter Bites School Readiness.
Project Overview
Collaborating with the Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research, this project seeks to develop a measure of organizational readiness for delivering evidence- based interventions to improve colorectal cancer screening among community health center patients. Using semi-structured individual interviews with school staff to understand the readiness of Brighter Bites implementation. Then, the validity of the existing readiness measurement tool in the school setting will be adapted and tested.
Project Details:
Collaborating with the Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research, this project seeks to develop a measure of organizational readiness for delivering evidence- based interventions to improve colorectal cancer screening among community health center patients.
After the measure is developed, it will be further tested in health clinics for validity and reliability and then in schools delivering a nutrition program to ensure it is applicable across settings and topics. Creating a validated measure of organizational readiness is critical to accelerate and improve implementation of evidence-based programs for cancer control.
Aim 1: Adapt and further develop the current Readiness Monitoring Tool to assess readiness for implementing evidence-based interventions for increasing colorectal cancer screening in community health clinics.
Aim 2: Test structural, discriminant, and criterion validity of the revised Readiness Monitoring Tool as well as reliability by assessing internal consistency, temporal stability, and inter-rater reliability.
Aim 3: Adapt and assess the usability and validity of the Readiness Monitoring Tool in the school setting for implementing a nutrition-based program.
Project Funders : NIH, Funding Institute: NCI
Project Contact: Ru- Jye (Lindi) Chuang, DrPH
Project Team
Principal Investigator
Maria E. Fernandez, PhD
Professor, Department of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences