Discriminant content validity of a theoretical domains framework questionnaire for use in implementation research.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To improve the implementation of innovations in healthcare settings, it is important to understand factors influencing healthcare professionals' behaviors. We aimed to develop a generic questionnaire in English and in Dutch assessing the 14 domains of behavioral determinants from the revised TDF (Cane et al., 2012) that can be tailored to suit different targets, actions, contexts, and times of interest, and to investigate questionnaire items' discriminant content validity.

Methods

We identified existing questionnaires including items assessing constructs within TDF domains and developed new items where needed. Nineteen judges allocated 79 items to one or more TDF domains. One-sample t-tests were used to examine the discriminant content validity of each item, i.e.,

SUBMITTER: Huijg JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3896680 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature