TABLE 2—
Results From Getting To Outcomes Practitioner Skills Scale: Southern California, 2016
| Average Score |
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| Practitioner Skills Itemsa | Baseline (n = 12) | Follow-Up (n = 9) | % Change | t | P |
| Examine your community’s current need. | 4.08 | 5.11 | 25.2 | 1.652 | .12 |
| Determine the availability of resources (e.g., staff) in your community. | 4.80 | 5.22 | 8.8 | 0.591 | .56 |
| Develop goals (e.g., short-term, intermediate, or long-term) to address your community’s needs (e.g., to improve preparedness). | 4.33 | 4.56 | 5.3 | 0.335 | .74 |
| Locate, evaluate, or use best practices. | 4.00 | 4.67 | 16.8 | 1.101 | .29 |
| Examine whether your programs, projects, or initiatives duplicate existing efforts in your community. | 3.33 | 4.11 | 23.4 | 1.071 | .30 |
| Develop a detailed implementation plan (e.g., staff roles, timelines, target population locations) for your programs, projects, or initiatives. | 3.67 | 4.89 | 33.2 | 1.651 | .12 |
| Evaluate whether programs, projects, or initiatives are implemented according to plan. | 3.42 | 4.67 | 36.5 | 1.639 | .12 |
| Evaluate how well your programs, projects, or initiatives produced the desired improvements in the participants. | 3.17 | 4.89 | 54.3 | 2.495 | .022 |
| Use evaluation feedback to improve your programs, projects, or initiatives | 3.75 | 5.22 | 39.2 | 1.899 | .07 |
| Take actions to keep your programs, projects, or initiatives running | 4.58 | 5.56 | 21.4 | 1.400 | .18 |
| Average skills score | 3.90 | 4.89 | 25.4 | 3.208 | .005 |
a
Range = 1 (never) to 7 (very often).