Counselors' Satisfaction with Disaster Training: The Development of an Index

This article reports findings on the development of an index that measures outreach counselors' satisfaction with a disaster training program. Data were collected from a sample of 64 counselors who were recruited and trained to provide mental health services to survivors of the Great Flood of 1993. Factor analyses were used to identify a 15 item index. These items represent three factors which explained 80.6% of the variance among the items. The resulting Disaster Training Evaluation Index (DTE-I) has excellent reliability estimates (Alpha =.95). The DTE-I represents an important step in filling the need for measurement instruments that evaluate disaster training programs