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| Título: | Portuguese Community Pharmacists’ Attitudes to and Knowledge of Antibiotic Misuse: Questionnaire Development and Reliability. |
| Autores: | Roque, Fátima
Soares, Sara
Breitenfeld, Luiza
Gonzalez-Gonzalez, Cristian
Figueiras, Adolfo
Herdeiro, Maria Teresa |
| Data: | 5-Mar-2014 |
| Citação: | Roque F, Soares S, Breitenfeld L, Gonzalez-Gonzalez C, Figueiras A, et al. (2014) Portuguese Community Pharmacists’ Attitudes to and Knowledge of Antibiotic Misuse: Questionnaire Development and Reliability. PLoS ONE 9(3): e90470. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0090470 |
| Resumo: | Objective: To develop and evaluate the reliability of a self-administered questionnaire designed to assess the attitudes and knowledge of community pharmacists in Portugal about microbial resistance and the antibiotic dispensing process.
Methods: This study was divided into the following three stages: (1) design of the questionnaire, which included a literature review and a qualitative study with focus-group sessions; (2) assessment of face and content validity, using a panel of experts and a pre-test of community pharmacists; and, (3) pilot study and reliability analysis, which included a test-retest study covering fifty practising pharmacists based at community pharmacies in five districts situated in Northern Portugal.
Questionnaire reproducibility was quantified using the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC; 95% confidence interval) computed by means of one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). Internal consistency was evaluated using Cronbach’s alpha.
Results: The correlation coefficients were fair to good (ICC.0.4) for all statements (scale-items) regarding knowledge of and attitudes to antibiotic resistance, and ranged from fair to good to excellent for statements about situations in which pharmacists acknowledged that antibiotics were sometimes dispensed without a medical prescription (ICC.0.8).
Cronbach’s alpha for this section was 0.716.
Conclusions: The questionnaire designed in this study is valid and reliable in terms of content validity, face validity and reproducibility. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10314/2430 |
| ISSN: | 1932-6203 |
| Aparece nas Colecções: | Artigos em Revista Internacional (ESS)
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