Hawley Suzanne R, St Romain Theresa, Orr Shirley A, Molgaard Craig A, Kabler Bethany S
Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita, Wichita, KS 67214-3199, USA.
Health Promot Pract. 2011 Mar;12(2):202-8. doi: 10.1177/1524839909349163. Epub 2010 Feb 15.
Previous public health leadership training research has assessed regional or national programs or evaluated program effectiveness qualitatively. Although these methods are valuable, state-level program impact has not been evaluated quantitatively. Public health core and leadership competency assessments are administered pre and post Kansas Public Health Leadership Institute training (N = 94). Wilcoxon signed rank tests note significant increases by each competency domain. Data are stratified by years of experience, level of education, and urban or rural status, and correlations calculated using Spearman's rho tests in SPSS/PC 14.0. Post training, participants improve significantly in all competency domains (p < .001). Participants with lower education, fewer years of experience, and rural status improve more in certain core competency domains. Lower education and rural status correlate with greater improvement in certain leadership competency domains. Similar assessment methods can be used by other public health education programs to ensure that programs appropriately train specific workforce populations for national accreditation.
以往的公共卫生领导力培训研究评估了区域或国家项目，或对项目效果进行了定性评估。尽管这些方法很有价值，但州级项目的影响尚未进行定量评估。在堪萨斯公共卫生领导力学院培训前后进行了公共卫生核心和领导力能力评估（N = 94）。 Wilcoxon符号秩检验表明每个能力领域都有显著提高。数据按工作经验年限、教育水平和城市或农村状况进行分层，并在SPSS/PC 14.0中使用Spearman秩相关检验计算相关性。培训后，所有能力领域的参与者都有显著改善（p < .001）。教育程度较低、工作经验较少和农村地区的参与者在某些核心能力领域的改善更大。较低的教育水平和农村地区状况与某些领导力能力领域的更大改善相关。其他公共卫生教育项目可以使用类似的评估方法，以确保项目为获得国家认证而对特定劳动力群体进行适当培训。
