[Design and validation of a questionnaire on attitudes to prevention and health promotion in primary care (CAPPAP)].

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To develop and validate a questionnaire to measure attitudes towards prevention and health promotion.

Design

Cross-sectional study for the validation of a questionnaire.

Location

Primary Health Care (autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain).

Participants

282 professionals (nurses and doctors) belonging to the Public Health System.

Main measurements

Content validation by experts, ceiling effects and floor effects, correlation between items, internal consistency, stability and exploratory factor analysis.

Results

The 56 items of the tool (CAPPAP) obtained, including those from the review of other tools and the contributions of the experts, were grouped into 5 dimensions. The percentage of expert agreement was over 70% on all items, and a high concordance between prevention and promotion item was obtained, thus, duplicates were removed leaving a final tool with 44 items. The internal consistency, measured by Cronbach's alpha, was 0.888. The test retest indicated concordance from substantial to almost perfect. Exploratory factor analysis identified five factors that accounted for 48.92% of the variance.

Conclusions

CAPPAP is a tool that is quick and easy to administer, that is well accepted by professionals, and that has acceptable psychometric results, both globally and at the level of each dimension.

SUBMITTER: Ramos-Morcillo AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6985530 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature