title: The Assessment, Development, Assurance Pharmacist's Tool (ADAPT) for ensuring quality implementation of health promotion programs.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To develop and validate the Assessment, Development, Assurance Pharmacist's Tool (ADAPT), an instrument for pharmacists and student pharmacists to use in developing and implementing health promotion programs.
  
  
  METHODS
  The 36-item ADAPT instrument was developed using the framework of public health's 3 core functions (assessment, policy development, and assurance) and 10 essential services. The tool's content and usage was assessed and conducted through peer-review and initial validity testing processes.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Over 20 faculty members, preceptors, and student pharmacists at 5 institutions involved in planning and implementing health promotion initiatives reviewed the instrument and conducted validity testing. The instrument took approximately 15 minutes to complete and the findings resulted in changes and improvements to elements of the programs evaluated.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The ADAPT instrument fills a need to more effectively plan, develop, implement, and evaluate pharmacist-directed public health programs that are evidence-based, high-quality, and compliant with laws and regulations and facilitates documentation of pharmacists' contributions to public health.
authors.affiliation: School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland, 20 North Pine St., Baltimore, MD 21201, USA. htruong@rx.umaryland.edu
authors.forename: Hoai-An
authors.initials: HA
authors.lastname: Truong
authors.forename: Catherine R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Taylor
authors.forename: Natalie A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: DiPietro
mesh_terms: D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D010595:Pharmacists / Q000592:standards*; D010865:Pilot Projects; D016730:Program Development / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results