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dc.contributor.author | Teixeira Rodrigues, António | - |
dc.contributor.author | Ferreira, Mónica | - |
dc.contributor.author | Roque, Fátima | - |
dc.contributor.author | Falcão, Amílcar C. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Ramalheira, Elmano | - |
dc.contributor.author | Figueiras, Adolfo | - |
dc.contributor.author | Herdeiro, Maria Teresa | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-08-30T10:56:27Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2023-08-30T10:56:27Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2016-01-08 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1471-2334 | pt |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10316/108498 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Background: Understanding physicians’ antibiotic-prescribing behaviour is fundamental when it comes to improving antibiotic use and tackling the growing rates of antimicrobial resistance. The aim of the study was to develop and validate -in terms of face validity, content validity and reliability- an instrument designed to assess the attitudes and knowledge underlying physician antibiotic prescribing. Methods: The questionnaire development and validation process comprised two different steps, namely: (1) content and face validation, which included a literature review and validation both by physicians and by Portuguese language and clinical psychology experts; and (2) reliability analysis, using the test-retest method, to assess the questionnaire’s internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha) and reproducibility (intraclass correlation coefficient - ICC). The questionnaire includes 17 items assessing attitudes and knowledge about antibiotic prescribing and resistances and 9 items evaluating the importance of different sources of knowledge. The study was conducted in the catchment area covered by Portugal’s Northern Regional Health Administration and used a convenience sample of 61 primary-care and 50 hospital-care physicians. Results: Response rate was 64 % (49 % to retest) for primary-care physicians and 66 % (60 % to retest) for hospital-care physicians. Content validity resulted in 9 changes to professional concepts. Face validity assessment resulted in 19 changes to linguistic and interpretative terms. In the case of the reliability analysis, the ICC values indicated a minimum of fair to good reproducibility (ICC > 0.4), and the Cronbach alpha values were satisfactory (α > 0.70). Conclusions: The questionnaire developed is valid -in terms of face validity, content validity and reliability- for assessing physicians’ attitudes to and knowledge of antibiotic prescribing and resistance, in both hospital and primary-care settings, and could be a very useful tool for characterising physicians’ antibiotic-prescribing behaviour. | pt |
dc.language.iso | eng | pt |
dc.publisher | Springer Nature | pt |
dc.relation | PTDC/SAU-ESA/105530/2008 | pt |
dc.rights | openAccess | pt |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | pt |
dc.subject.mesh | Anti-Bacterial Agents | pt |
dc.subject.mesh | Attitude of Health Personnel | pt |
dc.subject.mesh | Humans | pt |
dc.subject.mesh | Portugal | pt |
dc.subject.mesh | Reproducibility of Results | pt |
dc.subject.mesh | Drug Resistance, Bacterial | pt |
dc.subject.mesh | Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice | pt |
dc.subject.mesh | Physicians | pt |
dc.subject.mesh | Prescriptions | pt |
dc.subject.mesh | Surveys and Questionnaires | pt |
dc.title | Physicians' attitudes and knowledge concerning antibiotic prescription and resistance: questionnaire development and reliability | pt |
dc.type | article | - |
degois.publication.firstPage | 7 | pt |
degois.publication.issue | 1 | pt |
degois.publication.title | BMC Infectious Diseases | pt |
dc.peerreviewed | yes | pt |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1186/s12879-015-1332-y | pt |
degois.publication.volume | 16 | pt |
dc.date.embargo | 2016-01-08 | * |
uc.date.periodoEmbargo | 0 | pt |
item.cerifentitytype | Publications | - |
item.languageiso639-1 | en | - |
item.fulltext | Com Texto completo | - |
item.grantfulltext | open | - |
item.openairecristype | http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_18cf | - |
item.openairetype | article | - |
crisitem.author.orcid | 0000-0002-3854-6549 | - |
crisitem.author.orcid | 0000-0002-0500-4049 | - |
Appears in Collections: | I&D CNC - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais FFUC- Artigos em Revistas Internacionais |
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