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Predicting Dissemination of a Disaster Mental Health “Train-the-Trainer” Program

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 April 2013

Wendi Cross ,
Catherine Cerulli ,
Heidi Richards ,
Hua He  and
Jack Herrmann
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Abstract

Objective: Disaster mental health (DMH) is vital to comprehensive disaster preparedness for communities. A train-the-trainer (TTT) model is frequently used in public health to disseminate knowledge and skills to communities, although few studies have examined its success. We report on the development and implementation of a DMH TTT program and examine variables that predict dissemination.

Methods: This secondary analysis examines 140 community-based mental health providers' participation in a TTT DMH program in 2005–2006. Instructors' dissemination of the training was followed for 12 months. Bivariate and multivariate analyses were conducted to predict dissemination of the training program.

Results: Sixty percent of the trainees in the DMH TTT program conducted training programs in the 12-month period following being trained. The likelihood of conducting training programs was predicted by a self-report measure of perceptions of transfer of training. The number of individuals subsequently trained (559) was predicted by prior DMH training and sex. No other variables predicted dissemination of DMH training.

Conclusions: The TTT model was moderately successful in disseminating DMH training. Intervention at the organizational and individual level, as well as training modifications, may increase cost-effective dissemination of DMH training.

(Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2010;4:339-343)

Keywords

disastermental healthtrainingtrain-the-trainerdisseminationmental health serviceshealth personneleducation, professional
Type
Concepts in Disaster Medicine
Information
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 4 , Issue 4 , December 2010 , pp. 339 - 343
Copyright
Copyright © Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc. 2010

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