[Construction and validation of an attitude scale to primary health care]. / Construcción y validación de una escala de actitudes hacia la atención primaria de salud.
Aten Primaria
; 18(4): 168-75, 1996 Sep 15.
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ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVES:
To elaborate and validate a scale which can be used as an instrument to find the attitudes towards primary health care of doctors at the first care level.DESIGN:
Validation study and questionnaire on attitudes.SETTING:
The first care level in the Murcia region. Subjects were 155 doctors (27 family and 128 general doctors) in fixed and provisional posts working in the out-clinics and health centres. MEASUREMENTS ANDRESULTS:
A Likert-type attitudes scale was designed with five reply options. After the pilot-study on the initial scale and the full item-item correlation, the definitive 46-item survey was elaborated. Selection of subjects was through two-stage stratified randomised sampling, by specialty (general/family medicine) and health district. Reliability was high. Contents validity was reached through various consensus methods. To test validity of construction, a factorial analysis of the main components was performed, with 7 factors isolated overall patient care, team-work, guidance on health problems, doctor's interest in in-work training, professional role, concern for the psychosocial aspects of the illness and inclusion of second level professionals.CONCLUSIONS:
The scale designed is a valid instrument, both a reliable way of identifying PHC doctors' attitudes and the attitudes, which could be improved.
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Atenção Primária à Saúde
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Atitude do Pessoal de Saúde
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Inquéritos e Questionários
Idioma:
Es
Ano de publicação:
1996
Tipo de documento:
Article