Reliability and construct validity of knowledge, attitude and practice of medical doctors on smoking cessation guidelines

Prevalence of active smokers in Malaysia is increasing despite availability of stop smoking clinics. Thus, practice of the healthcare professionals in providing smoking cessation intervention needs to be assessed. This study aimed to develop and validate a questionnaire to assess the knowledge, atti...

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Main Authors:	Md Aris, Mohd Aznan, Nik Mohamed, Mohamad Haniki, Mohd. Rus, Razman, Jamani, Nurjasmine Aida, Shalihin, Mohd Shaiful Ehsan
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Language:	English English
Published:	2016
Subjects:	R Medicine (General) RA Public aspects of medicine RC Internal medicine
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spelling	iium-665132019-07-26T02:07:33Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/66513/ Reliability and construct validity of knowledge, attitude and practice of medical doctors on smoking cessation guidelines Md Aris, Mohd Aznan Nik Mohamed, Mohamad Haniki Mohd. Rus, Razman Jamani, Nurjasmine Aida Shalihin, Mohd Shaiful Ehsan R Medicine (General) RA Public aspects of medicine RC Internal medicine Prevalence of active smokers in Malaysia is increasing despite availability of stop smoking clinics. Thus, practice of the healthcare professionals in providing smoking cessation intervention needs to be assessed. This study aimed to develop and validate a questionnaire to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice of medical doctors on national smoking cessation guidelines and factors contributing to the score. Methods: The 26 items consists of mixture of true/false questions; strongly-agree/agree/don’t-know/disagree/strongly-disagree response; and always/frequent/seldom/never response were created based on domain of 5A’s (ask, assess, advice, assist, arrange) and 5R’s (relevant, risks, rewards, roadblocks, repetitions). The questionnaires were distributed to 141 medical doctors. Reliability was determined using Cronbach’s alpha for internal consistency while construct validity was assessed using factor analysis. Results: A high degree of internal consistency was observed for this 26 items (Cronbach’s alpha= 0.824). Subsequently, 2 items with poor inter-item correlations were removed. Factor analysis extracted 7 meaningful components from this remaining 24 items, in which 3 components with least items were deleted due to overlapping subscale with other components, leaving 4 meaningful components of (1st) practice ask, advice, assess and practice 5R’s, (2nd) practice of assist and arrange for those willing to quit, (3rd) knowledge and (4th) attitude. These final 17 items still demonstrate high internal consistency with Cronbach’s alpha of 0.832. Conclusions: This study indicates that this questionnaire is a reliable and valid tool to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice on stop smoking guidelines. I 2016 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/66513/8/66513%20abstract.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/66513/1/Updated%202%20Reliability%20and%20Construct%20Validity%20of%20Knowledge%2C%20Attitude%20-%20Copyy.pdf Md Aris, Mohd Aznan and Nik Mohamed, Mohamad Haniki and Mohd. Rus, Razman and Jamani, Nurjasmine Aida and Shalihin, Mohd Shaiful Ehsan (2016) Reliability and construct validity of knowledge, attitude and practice of medical doctors on smoking cessation guidelines. In: Medical Research Symposium 2016, 3rd-6th August 2016, Kuantan, Pahang. (Unpublished)
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spellingShingle	R Medicine (General) RA Public aspects of medicine RC Internal medicine Md Aris, Mohd Aznan Nik Mohamed, Mohamad Haniki Mohd. Rus, Razman Jamani, Nurjasmine Aida Shalihin, Mohd Shaiful Ehsan Reliability and construct validity of knowledge, attitude and practice of medical doctors on smoking cessation guidelines
description	Prevalence of active smokers in Malaysia is increasing despite availability of stop smoking clinics. Thus, practice of the healthcare professionals in providing smoking cessation intervention needs to be assessed. This study aimed to develop and validate a questionnaire to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice of medical doctors on national smoking cessation guidelines and factors contributing to the score. Methods: The 26 items consists of mixture of true/false questions; strongly-agree/agree/don’t-know/disagree/strongly-disagree response; and always/frequent/seldom/never response were created based on domain of 5A’s (ask, assess, advice, assist, arrange) and 5R’s (relevant, risks, rewards, roadblocks, repetitions). The questionnaires were distributed to 141 medical doctors. Reliability was determined using Cronbach’s alpha for internal consistency while construct validity was assessed using factor analysis. Results: A high degree of internal consistency was observed for this 26 items (Cronbach’s alpha= 0.824). Subsequently, 2 items with poor inter-item correlations were removed. Factor analysis extracted 7 meaningful components from this remaining 24 items, in which 3 components with least items were deleted due to overlapping subscale with other components, leaving 4 meaningful components of (1st) practice ask, advice, assess and practice 5R’s, (2nd) practice of assist and arrange for those willing to quit, (3rd) knowledge and (4th) attitude. These final 17 items still demonstrate high internal consistency with Cronbach’s alpha of 0.832. Conclusions: This study indicates that this questionnaire is a reliable and valid tool to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice on stop smoking guidelines. I
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Md Aris, Mohd Aznan Nik Mohamed, Mohamad Haniki Mohd. Rus, Razman Jamani, Nurjasmine Aida Shalihin, Mohd Shaiful Ehsan
author_facet	Md Aris, Mohd Aznan Nik Mohamed, Mohamad Haniki Mohd. Rus, Razman Jamani, Nurjasmine Aida Shalihin, Mohd Shaiful Ehsan
author_sort	Md Aris, Mohd Aznan
title	Reliability and construct validity of knowledge, attitude and practice of medical doctors on smoking cessation guidelines
title_short	Reliability and construct validity of knowledge, attitude and practice of medical doctors on smoking cessation guidelines
title_full	Reliability and construct validity of knowledge, attitude and practice of medical doctors on smoking cessation guidelines
title_fullStr	Reliability and construct validity of knowledge, attitude and practice of medical doctors on smoking cessation guidelines
title_full_unstemmed	Reliability and construct validity of knowledge, attitude and practice of medical doctors on smoking cessation guidelines
title_sort	reliability and construct validity of knowledge, attitude and practice of medical doctors on smoking cessation guidelines
publishDate	2016
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/66513/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/66513/8/66513%20abstract.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/66513/1/Updated%202%20Reliability%20and%20Construct%20Validity%20of%20Knowledge%2C%20Attitude%20-%20Copyy.pdf
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Reliability and construct validity of knowledge, attitude and practice of medical doctors on smoking cessation guidelines

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