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| Título: | Development and Validation of Pharmacists' and Physicians' Attitudes Instrument about Microbial Resistance and Antibiotic Use in Primary Care |
| Autores: | Roque, Fátima
Soares, Sara
Breitenfeld, Luiza
Figueiras, Adolfo
Herdeiro, Maria Teresa |
| Palavras Chave: | pharmacists
physicians
antibiotics
questionnaire validation |
| Data: | 2012 |
| Editora: | Development and Validation of Pharmacists' and Physicians' Attitudes Instrument about Microbial Resistance and Antibiotic Use in Primary Care |
| Resumo: | Objectives
To evaluate reliability and reproducibility of two questionnaires on knowledge and attitudes of pharmacists and physicians about antibiotic use and microbial resistance.
Methods
Two structured questionnaires, one for pharmacists and one for physicians, were constructed after review of published studies and after performed a qualitative study designed with pharmacists’ focus group sessions. Our research was developed in an area of Statistically Territorial Unity Nomenclature (NUT) II of Portugal, defined by Health Northern Regional Administration (ARS-N). ARS-N was informed about the study and questionnaires were administered to each health professional twice, at an interval of 2 to 4 weeks. Attitudes were measured using a continuous visual analogical scale, with answers scored from 0 (total disagreement) to 20 (total agreement). Statistical analyses included the determination of intraclass coefficient (ICC) and Cronbach's alpha for each questionnaire.
Results
A total of 43 pharmacists and 32 physicians participated in this survey. Each questionnaire evaluated 17 attitudes that were grouped in four dimensions of attitudes to antibiotic resistance: perception of the problem, attribution of responsibilities, confidence and factors associated to dispensing habits (in pharmacists questionnaire) or factors associated to prescription habits (in physicians questionnaire). Six questions, related to the first three categories mentioned are common for both questionnaires what permits to compare these attitudes between pharmacists and physicians. All evaluated attitudes demonstrated good ICC for each questionnaire and the reliability (Cronbach's alpha) was 0,624 for pharmacists’ questionnaire and 0,711 for physicians’ questionnaire.
Conclusions
These questionnaires proved to be a good tool for collecting data, since it allows compare some attitudes between pharmacists and physicians, and to detect differences among each professional group. Data collected from this questionnaire are important to design interventions directed to pharmacists and physicians to improve antibiotic use, tailored taking into account attitudes, knowledge and dispense or prescription habits of these health professionals. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10314/3209 |
| Aparece nas Colecções: | Artigos em Acta de Conferência Internacional (ESTG)
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