37. Organizational Readiness to Change Assessment (ORCA) - PRAGMATIC

Organizational Readiness to Change Assessment (ORCA) Pragmatic Testing and Content Validity Data Summary of Pragmatic properties The ORCA tool had an overall objective pragmatic score of 14 out of 20. [...] Content validity refers to the degree to which the content of the tool is an adequate reflection of the construct being measured. [...] In the case of the Organizational Readiness to Change Assessment (ORCA) tool, this refers to the extent that individuals can use the ORCA tool to assess barriers/facilitators to knowledge use and monitor knowledge use according to the following scales: • Evidence Scale • Context Scale • Facilitation Scale 3 General Requirements Yes No 1. [...] The three subscales of the ORCA tool based on the PARISH framework are further divided into 19 subscales that are meant to evaluate the three core elements of the PARISH framework (evidence, context, and facilitation) (Helfrich, 2009). [...] Further, the tool developers stated that concurrent validity testing is required for the ORCA tool, as the development paper did not assess the tool’s relationship with actual use of evidence-based practice, or other confounding factors related to using evidence-based practice (Helfrich, 2009).