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Table 1 Survey questions mapped to published sustainment outcomes

From: Sustainment of diverse evidence-informed practices disseminated in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA): initial development and piloting of a pragmatic survey tool

Sustainment items

Survey question

Palinkas

[11]

Lennox

[17]

Scheirer

Dearing [18]

Shelton

[19]

Primary outcomes

1. Practice sustainment

Is this practice still being used or done at your site?

(yes/no/partially)

X

X

X

X

Secondary outcomes

2. Practice institutionalization

Is this practice considered routine, usual practice? (i.e., practice is nearly always used or done when appropriate by all individuals involved)

(yes/no/partially)

  

X

X

3. Practice priority

This practice has priority at your site.

(strongly disagree to strongly agree Likert scale)

  

Xa

 

4. Practice buy-in/capacity/partnershipb

This practice has support and commitment from facility leadership.

This practice has a Champion (leader) at your site.

This practice has sufficient staffing.

This practice has support and buy-in from key outside community entities.

(strongly disagree to strongly agree Likert scale)

X

X

X

X

5. Practice fundingb

This practice has sufficient funding.

This practice has sufficient resources (e.g., space, equipment).

(strongly disagree to strongly agree Likert scale)

X

   

6. Practice benefitb

Is this practice demonstrating effectiveness at your site?

(yes/no/partially)

 

X

X

X

7. Practice improvements/adaptation

Have there been any changes or adaptations to this practice?

(yes/No/partially)

 

X

  

8. Practice spread/diffusion

Has this practice spread to other units or places in your site?

(yes/no/partially)

  

X

 
  1. a Scheirer and Dearing conceptualized this measure as issue priority, not practice priority; however, given that DoE practices assessed different issues, this was presented as practice priority [9]
  2. b A similar item was conceptualized as a sustainment determinant by one or more authors represented in the table [8,9,10]