Development and validation of a questionnaire to evaluate the knowledge, attitude and practices regarding travel medicine amongst physicians in an apex tertiary hospital in Northern India.

IF 4.7 Q2 MATERIALS SCIENCE, BIOMATERIALS ACS Applied Bio Materials Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI:10.1186/s40794-022-00170-w

Arvind Kumar, Anand Rajendran, Mohd Usman, Jatin Ahuja, Sameer Samad, Ankit Mittal, Prerna Garg, Upendra Baitha, Piyush Ranjan, Naveet Wig

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Objectives: Travel medicine focuses primarily on pre-travel preventive care and the conditions and diseases acquired during or after travel. There is a paucity of validated tools to assess the knowledge, attitude and practises of physicians with regard to travel medicine. We attempted to develop a tool to assess existing expertise among Medicine and Infectious Diseases resident doctors with respect to travel medicine.

Methods: Item level content validity index (I-CVI) and scale level content validity index (S-CVI/Ave) were estimated for each of the items to establish the content validity. Refined measures of inter-rater agreement (Brennan and Prediger Agreement Coefficient and Gwet's Agreement Coefficient) were estimated for the tool.

Results: The final version of the questionnaire had satisfactory content validity (I-CVI > 0∙6 and S-CVI/Ave > 0∙9) and possessed high agreement among the raters (Brennan and Prediger AC > 0∙7, p < 0∙01 and Gwet's AC > 0∙8, p < 0∙01) with regard to necessity, clarity and relevance of the scale.

Conclusions: This tool covers a wide range of questions and is scientifically validated. The final version of the tool can be used largely for the assessment of knowledge, attitude and practices among medical practitioners. This is instrumental to build targeted intervention programs to enhance the knowledge regarding travel medicine among health care providers.

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制定和验证一份调查问卷，以评估印度北部一家顶级三级医院医生关于旅行医学的知识、态度和做法

目的：旅行医学主要关注旅行前的预防性护理以及旅行期间或旅行后的疾病。缺乏有效的工具来评估医生在旅行医学方面的知识、态度和实践。我们试图开发一种工具来评估医学和传染病住院医生在旅行医学方面的现有专业知识。方法：评估每个项目的项目级内容有效性指数（I-CVI）和量表级内容有效度指数（S-CVI/Ave），以建立内容有效性。评估了该工具的评分者间一致性的精细度量（Brennan和Prediger一致系数和Gwet一致系数）。结果：问卷的最终版本具有令人满意的内容有效性（I-CVI > 0∙6和S-CVI/Ave > 0∙9），并在评分者中达成高度一致（Brennan和Prediger AC > 0∙7，p 0∙8，p 结论：该工具涵盖了广泛的问题，并经过了科学验证。该工具的最终版本可主要用于评估医生的知识、态度和实践。这有助于建立有针对性的干预计划，以提高医疗保健提供者对旅行医学的了解。

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