The Structure And Psychometric Properties Of the Organizational Structure Assessment Questionnaire For Addiction Harm Reduction Centers

The present research was conducted with the aim of developing a tool to evaluate the organizational structure of transit centers to reduce addiction harm.

This research was created with the qualitative analysis method of the questionnaire, and the psychometric characteristics were investigated with the quantitative method of confirmatory factor analysis. The research community included experts and officials working in transition centers in 2019 and 2020. Sampling in the qualitative section continued until theoretical saturation, and in the quantitative section, 237 people were sampled. In the qualitative part of the interview method with experts and officials of transit centers and through content analysis, important indicators were identified and the tool was developed, and in the quantitative part, the validation of the tool was done through confirmatory factor analysis. The research tool in the qualitative part included a semi-structured interview, and in the quantitative part, the tool was made in the qualitative stage.

a total of 10 themes in the qualitative section named founder, employees, supporting organization, physical environment, monitoring and supervision, training program, Out Reach team, statistics and information, performance and social and responsible support as The sub-codes of the organizational structure were obtained and finally led to the construction of a questionnaire with a main scale and 10 components and a total of 80 items. In the quantitative part, the results of confirmatory factor analysis indicated the fit of the model with the data (RMSEA=0.02 and Chi2/df=1.16).

The compiled questionnaire is a suitable tool for measuring the organizational structure of harm reduction in harm reduction transit centers, and therefore, this tool can be used on a wide level to measure the provision of transit center services.