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Reliability and Validity of a New Survey to Assess Global Health Competencies of Health Professionals

OBJECTIVE: Health professionals are paying increased attention to issues of global health. However, there are no current competency assessment tools appropriate for evaluating their competency in global health. This study aims to assess the validity and reliability of a global health competency surv...

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Autores principales: Veras, Mirella, Pottie, Kevin, Welch, Vivian, Labonte, Ron, Eslava-Schmalbach, Javier, Borkhoff, Cornelia M., Kristjansson, Elizabeth A., Tugwell, Peter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Canadian Center of Science and Education 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4776957/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23283032
http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/gjhs.v5n1p13
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author Veras, Mirella
Pottie, Kevin
Welch, Vivian
Labonte, Ron
Eslava-Schmalbach, Javier
Borkhoff, Cornelia M.
Kristjansson, Elizabeth A.
Tugwell, Peter
author_facet Veras, Mirella
Pottie, Kevin
Welch, Vivian
Labonte, Ron
Eslava-Schmalbach, Javier
Borkhoff, Cornelia M.
Kristjansson, Elizabeth A.
Tugwell, Peter
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description OBJECTIVE: Health professionals are paying increased attention to issues of global health. However, there are no current competency assessment tools appropriate for evaluating their competency in global health. This study aims to assess the validity and reliability of a global health competency survey for different health disciplines. METHODS: A total of 429 students participated in the Global Health Competency Survey, drawn from family medicine residency, nursing, physiotherapy and occupational therapy programs of five universities in Ontario, Canada. The surveys were evaluated for face and content validity and reliability. RESULTS: Factor analysis was used to identify the main factors to be included in the reliability analysis. Content validity was supported with one floor effect in the “racial/ethnic disparities” variable (36.1%), and few ceiling effects. Seven of the twenty-two variables performed the best (between 34% and 59.6%). For the overall rating score, no participants had floor or ceiling effects. Five factors were identified which accounted for 95% of the variance. Cronbach’s alpha was >0.8 indicating that the survey items had good internal consistency and represent a homogeneous construct. CONCLUSION: The Global Health Competency Survey demonstrated good internal consistency and validity.
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spelling pubmed-47769572016-04-21 Reliability and Validity of a New Survey to Assess Global Health Competencies of Health Professionals Veras, Mirella Pottie, Kevin Welch, Vivian Labonte, Ron Eslava-Schmalbach, Javier Borkhoff, Cornelia M. Kristjansson, Elizabeth A. Tugwell, Peter Glob J Health Sci Articles OBJECTIVE: Health professionals are paying increased attention to issues of global health. However, there are no current competency assessment tools appropriate for evaluating their competency in global health. This study aims to assess the validity and reliability of a global health competency survey for different health disciplines. METHODS: A total of 429 students participated in the Global Health Competency Survey, drawn from family medicine residency, nursing, physiotherapy and occupational therapy programs of five universities in Ontario, Canada. The surveys were evaluated for face and content validity and reliability. RESULTS: Factor analysis was used to identify the main factors to be included in the reliability analysis. Content validity was supported with one floor effect in the “racial/ethnic disparities” variable (36.1%), and few ceiling effects. Seven of the twenty-two variables performed the best (between 34% and 59.6%). For the overall rating score, no participants had floor or ceiling effects. Five factors were identified which accounted for 95% of the variance. Cronbach’s alpha was >0.8 indicating that the survey items had good internal consistency and represent a homogeneous construct. CONCLUSION: The Global Health Competency Survey demonstrated good internal consistency and validity. Canadian Center of Science and Education 2013-01 2012-10-22 /pmc/articles/PMC4776957/ /pubmed/23283032 http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/gjhs.v5n1p13 Text en Copyright: © Canadian Center of Science and Education http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Veras, Mirella
Pottie, Kevin
Welch, Vivian
Labonte, Ron
Eslava-Schmalbach, Javier
Borkhoff, Cornelia M.
Kristjansson, Elizabeth A.
Tugwell, Peter
Reliability and Validity of a New Survey to Assess Global Health Competencies of Health Professionals
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title_full Reliability and Validity of a New Survey to Assess Global Health Competencies of Health Professionals
title_fullStr Reliability and Validity of a New Survey to Assess Global Health Competencies of Health Professionals
title_full_unstemmed Reliability and Validity of a New Survey to Assess Global Health Competencies of Health Professionals
title_short Reliability and Validity of a New Survey to Assess Global Health Competencies of Health Professionals
title_sort reliability and validity of a new survey to assess global health competencies of health professionals
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4776957/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23283032
http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/gjhs.v5n1p13
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