Design and validation of a questionnaire to measure hantavirus preventive practices in an endemic community.

ABSTRACT:

Objective.

To design and analyze the evidence of content validity, internal structure, and reliability of a questionnaire of preventive practices for hantavirus in an endemic community in the Panamanian context.

Material and methods.

Quantitative study of instrumental design. This research was conducted in four phases: Literature review, content validity through expert judgment with the individual aggregate method and the calculation of the V Aiken, pilot test and psychometric validation, through exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and reliability analysis of instrument scores with ordinal alpha.

Results.

Content validity was evidenced and V Aiken values higher than 0.70 were reported in the lower limit of 95% CI. In the internal structure we identified that the 8 items

SUBMITTER: Agrazal-Garcia J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11397759 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan-Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature