Back to Search
Start Over
Development and validation of knowledge, attitude and practice questionnaire for prevention of respiratory tract infections among Malaysian Hajj pilgrims
- Source :
- BMC public health, 20:189, BMC Public Health, BMC Public Health, Vol 20, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2020)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
-
Abstract
- Background Hajj pilgrimage faces numerous challenges including a high prevalence of respiratory tract infection as well as its prevention strategies. The aim of this study was to develop and validate a questionnaire to evaluate knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) towards respiratory tract infections (RTIs) prevention among Malaysian Hajj pilgrims. Methods This study was conducted among Malaysian Umrah pilgrims in Malaysia from Kuala Lumpur and Kelantan. The questionnaire then underwent a series of validation process that included content, face validity and exploratory part. Item response theory (IRT) analysis was utilized for the validation of the knowledge domain. The attitude and practice were validated using the exploratory factor analysis (EFA). Results The validation process resulted in a questionnaire that comprised of four main sections: demography, knowledge, attitude, and practice. Following IRT analysis of the knowledge domain, all items analyzed were within the acceptable range of difficulty and discrimination. The Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin measure of sampling adequacy (KMO) was 0.72 and 0.84 for attitude and practice domain respectively and Bartlett’s test of Sphericity for both domains were highly significant (P 0.3). The Cronbach’s alpha for reliability of the knowledge, attitude and practice domains all showed acceptable values of > 0.6 (0.92, 0.77 and 0.85). Conclusion The findings of this validation and reliability study showed that the developed questionnaire had a satisfactory psychometric property for measuring KAP of Malaysian Hajj pilgrims.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
medicine.medical_specialty
Psychometrics
Respiratory tract infections and Hajj
Islam
Item response theory
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Cronbach's alpha
Surveys and Questionnaires
Prevalence
medicine
Humans
Knowledge attitude and practice
030212 general & internal medicine
Respiratory Tract Infections
Face validity
Travel
Exploratory factor analysis
Respiratory tract infections
business.industry
lcsh:Public aspects of medicine
05 social sciences
Malaysia
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Reproducibility of Results
050301 education
lcsh:RA1-1270
Middle Aged
Reliability
Test (assessment)
Family medicine
Female
Hajj
Biostatistics
Factor Analysis, Statistical
business
0503 education
Research Article
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- BMC public health, 20:189, BMC Public Health, BMC Public Health, Vol 20, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2020)
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c55488b5ec6d317c9034578e3dd21eaf