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Validation of an instrument to evaluate health promotion at schools
OBJECTIVE: To validate an instrument designed to assess health promotion in the school environment. METHODS: A questionnaire, based on guidelines from the World Health Organization and in line with the Brazilian school health context, was developed to validate the research instrument. There were 60...
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Faculdade de Saúde Pública da Universidade de São Paulo
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4772694/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26982958 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S01518-8787.2016050005855 |
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author | Pinto, Raquel Oliveira Pattussi, Marcos Pascoal Fontoura, Larissa do Prado Poletto, Simone Grapiglia, Valenca Lemes Balbinot, Alexandre Didó Teixeira, Vanessa Andina Horta, Rogério Lessa |
author_facet | Pinto, Raquel Oliveira Pattussi, Marcos Pascoal Fontoura, Larissa do Prado Poletto, Simone Grapiglia, Valenca Lemes Balbinot, Alexandre Didó Teixeira, Vanessa Andina Horta, Rogério Lessa |
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description | OBJECTIVE: To validate an instrument designed to assess health promotion in the school environment. METHODS: A questionnaire, based on guidelines from the World Health Organization and in line with the Brazilian school health context, was developed to validate the research instrument. There were 60 items in the instrument that included 40 questions for the school manager and 20 items with direct observations made by the interviewer. The items’ content validation was performed using the Delphi technique, with the instrument being applied in 53 schools from two medium-sized cities in the South region of Brazil. Reliability (Cronbach’s alpha and split-half) and validity (principal component analysis) analyses were performed. RESULTS: The final instrument remained composed of 28 items, distributed into three dimensions: pedagogical, structural and relational. The resulting components showed good factorial loads (> 0.4) and acceptable reliability (> 0.6) for most items. The pedagogical dimension identifies educational activities regarding drugs and sexuality, violence and prejudice, auto care and peace and quality of life. The structural dimension is comprised of access, sanitary structure, and conservation and equipment. The relational dimension includes relationships within the school and with the community. CONCLUSIONS: The proposed instrument presents satisfactory validity and reliability values, which include aspects relevant to promote health in schools. Its use allows the description of the health promotion conditions to which students from each educational institution are exposed. Because this instrument includes items directly observed by the investigator, it should only be used during periods when there are full and regular activities at the school in question. |
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spelling | pubmed-47726942016-03-14 Validation of an instrument to evaluate health promotion at schools Pinto, Raquel Oliveira Pattussi, Marcos Pascoal Fontoura, Larissa do Prado Poletto, Simone Grapiglia, Valenca Lemes Balbinot, Alexandre Didó Teixeira, Vanessa Andina Horta, Rogério Lessa Rev Saude Publica Original Article OBJECTIVE: To validate an instrument designed to assess health promotion in the school environment. METHODS: A questionnaire, based on guidelines from the World Health Organization and in line with the Brazilian school health context, was developed to validate the research instrument. There were 60 items in the instrument that included 40 questions for the school manager and 20 items with direct observations made by the interviewer. The items’ content validation was performed using the Delphi technique, with the instrument being applied in 53 schools from two medium-sized cities in the South region of Brazil. Reliability (Cronbach’s alpha and split-half) and validity (principal component analysis) analyses were performed. RESULTS: The final instrument remained composed of 28 items, distributed into three dimensions: pedagogical, structural and relational. The resulting components showed good factorial loads (> 0.4) and acceptable reliability (> 0.6) for most items. The pedagogical dimension identifies educational activities regarding drugs and sexuality, violence and prejudice, auto care and peace and quality of life. The structural dimension is comprised of access, sanitary structure, and conservation and equipment. The relational dimension includes relationships within the school and with the community. CONCLUSIONS: The proposed instrument presents satisfactory validity and reliability values, which include aspects relevant to promote health in schools. Its use allows the description of the health promotion conditions to which students from each educational institution are exposed. Because this instrument includes items directly observed by the investigator, it should only be used during periods when there are full and regular activities at the school in question. Faculdade de Saúde Pública da Universidade de São Paulo 2016-02-19 /pmc/articles/PMC4772694/ /pubmed/26982958 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S01518-8787.2016050005855 Text en 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 work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Pinto, Raquel Oliveira Pattussi, Marcos Pascoal Fontoura, Larissa do Prado Poletto, Simone Grapiglia, Valenca Lemes Balbinot, Alexandre Didó Teixeira, Vanessa Andina Horta, Rogério Lessa Validation of an instrument to evaluate health promotion at schools |
title | Validation of an instrument to evaluate health promotion at schools |
title_full | Validation of an instrument to evaluate health promotion at schools |
title_fullStr | Validation of an instrument to evaluate health promotion at schools |
title_full_unstemmed | Validation of an instrument to evaluate health promotion at schools |
title_short | Validation of an instrument to evaluate health promotion at schools |
title_sort | validation of an instrument to evaluate health promotion at schools |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4772694/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26982958 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S01518-8787.2016050005855 |
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