Translation and adaptation of the learning organisation survey for French speaking low middle income countries

Abstract

Author(s): Amalia Giuliani Diez, Hajar Essangri, El Houcine Akhnif, Mohammed Anass Majbar, Amine Benkabbou, Laila Amrani, Raouf Mohsine and Amine Souadka*

The development and management of health policies in low and middle income countries is challenged by political and financial restrictions, requiring tailored strategies that health systems and policy makers in high income countries may not be able to offer. Evolving into a learning organization requires diagnostic tools to assess how well teams, departments and institutions are performing and help identify areas for improvement. The learning organization survey fulfils these goals through the building blocks.

The aim of this study is to translate the Garvin's et al. Learning Organization (LO) survey into French to evaluate French-speaking health organizations.

We used the Brislin modified reverse translation technique to translate the survey, before cross-culturally adapting the survey through a workshop of experts and a committee of judges with an index of the validity of IVC content ≤ 80%. We also examined the dimensions of the survey according to categorized groups of professions namely doctors and medical students and trainees, nurses and administration and technical staff.

The survey was conducted with a sample of 111 workers from the National Oncology Institute of Rabat, with responsiveness rate of 65%. The established validation criteria were exceeded with a good internal consistency, demonstrated by a cronbach alpha coefficient superior to 0.8 in each block. Variations between the different groups were noted in the different dimensions with the doctors group having higher scores.

The French version of the LO questionnaire demonstrated good psychometric properties to be considered a useful and reliable tool capable of objectively assessing learning organizations and setting areas for their improvement.

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