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The Development and Validation of the Osteoporosis Prevention and Awareness Tool (OPAAT) in Malaysia

OBJECTIVES: To develop and validate Osteoporosis Prevention and Awareness Tool (OPAAT) in Malaysia. METHODS: The OPAAT was modified from the Malaysian Osteoporosis Knowledge Tool and developed from an exploratory study on patients. Face and content validity was established by an expert panel. The OP...

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Autores principales: Toh, Li Shean, Lai, Pauline Siew Mei, Wu, David Bin-Chia, Wong, Kok Thong, Low, Bee Yean, Anderson, Claire
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Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4418569/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25938494
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0124553
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author Toh, Li Shean
Lai, Pauline Siew Mei
Wu, David Bin-Chia
Wong, Kok Thong
Low, Bee Yean
Anderson, Claire
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Lai, Pauline Siew Mei
Wu, David Bin-Chia
Wong, Kok Thong
Low, Bee Yean
Anderson, Claire
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description OBJECTIVES: To develop and validate Osteoporosis Prevention and Awareness Tool (OPAAT) in Malaysia. METHODS: The OPAAT was modified from the Malaysian Osteoporosis Knowledge Tool and developed from an exploratory study on patients. Face and content validity was established by an expert panel. The OPAAT consists of 30 items, categorized into three domains. A higher score indicates higher knowledge level. English speaking non-osteoporotic postmenopausal women ≥50 years of age and pharmacists were included in the study. RESULTS: A total of 203 patients and 31 pharmacists were recruited. Factor analysis extracted three domains. Flesch reading ease was 59.2. The mean±SD accuracy rate was 0.60±0.22 (range: 0.26-0.94). The Cronbach’s α for each domain ranged from 0.286-0.748. All items were highly correlated (Spearman’s rho: 0.761-0.990, p<0.05), with no significant change in the overall test-retest scores, indicating that OPAAT has achieved stable reliability. Pharmacists had higher knowledge score than patients (80.9±8.7vs63.6±17.4, p<0.001), indicating that the OPAAT was able to discriminate between the knowledge levels of pharmacists and patients. CONCLUSION: The OPAAT was found to be a valid and reliable instrument for assessing patient’s knowledge about osteoporosis and its prevention in Malaysia. The OPAAT can be used to identify individuals in need of osteoporosis educational intervention.
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spelling pubmed-44185692015-05-12 The Development and Validation of the Osteoporosis Prevention and Awareness Tool (OPAAT) in Malaysia Toh, Li Shean Lai, Pauline Siew Mei Wu, David Bin-Chia Wong, Kok Thong Low, Bee Yean Anderson, Claire PLoS One Research Article OBJECTIVES: To develop and validate Osteoporosis Prevention and Awareness Tool (OPAAT) in Malaysia. METHODS: The OPAAT was modified from the Malaysian Osteoporosis Knowledge Tool and developed from an exploratory study on patients. Face and content validity was established by an expert panel. The OPAAT consists of 30 items, categorized into three domains. A higher score indicates higher knowledge level. English speaking non-osteoporotic postmenopausal women ≥50 years of age and pharmacists were included in the study. RESULTS: A total of 203 patients and 31 pharmacists were recruited. Factor analysis extracted three domains. Flesch reading ease was 59.2. The mean±SD accuracy rate was 0.60±0.22 (range: 0.26-0.94). The Cronbach’s α for each domain ranged from 0.286-0.748. All items were highly correlated (Spearman’s rho: 0.761-0.990, p<0.05), with no significant change in the overall test-retest scores, indicating that OPAAT has achieved stable reliability. Pharmacists had higher knowledge score than patients (80.9±8.7vs63.6±17.4, p<0.001), indicating that the OPAAT was able to discriminate between the knowledge levels of pharmacists and patients. CONCLUSION: The OPAAT was found to be a valid and reliable instrument for assessing patient’s knowledge about osteoporosis and its prevention in Malaysia. The OPAAT can be used to identify individuals in need of osteoporosis educational intervention. Public Library of Science 2015-05-04 /pmc/articles/PMC4418569/ /pubmed/25938494 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0124553 Text en © 2015 Toh et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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Lai, Pauline Siew Mei
Wu, David Bin-Chia
Wong, Kok Thong
Low, Bee Yean
Anderson, Claire
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title_short The Development and Validation of the Osteoporosis Prevention and Awareness Tool (OPAAT) in Malaysia
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4418569/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25938494
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0124553
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