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Content Validation of an Instrument for the Assessment of School Teachers’ Levels of Knowledge of Diabetes through Expert Judgment

The objective of this study was to describe the content validation, through expert judgment, of a questionnaire for determining the level of knowledge that school teachers have of diabetes in order to design relevant educational interventions to improve the health of school-aged children. This psych...

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Autores principales: Luque-Vara, Trinidad, Linares-Manrique, Marta, Fernández-Gómez, Elisabet, Martín-Salvador, Adelina, Sánchez-Ojeda, María Angustias, Enrique-Mirón, Carmen
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7699577/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33228161
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17228605
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author Luque-Vara, Trinidad
Linares-Manrique, Marta
Fernández-Gómez, Elisabet
Martín-Salvador, Adelina
Sánchez-Ojeda, María Angustias
Enrique-Mirón, Carmen
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description The objective of this study was to describe the content validation, through expert judgment, of a questionnaire for determining the level of knowledge that school teachers have of diabetes in order to design relevant educational interventions to improve the health of school-aged children. This psychometric study involved 15 experts who assessed each of the items in the instrument. The results revealed that the strength of agreement shown by the questionnaire ranged from substantial to almost perfect in its four dimensions, with the characteristics of “sufficiency” and “relevance” having the highest scores (0.982 and 0.903, respectively) based on the judgments made by the participating experts. Regarding statistical significance, the characteristics “sufficiency”, with p < 0.001, and “relevance”, with p = 0.001, were particularly relevant. The overall degree of understandability for the new version of the instrument was high (91.54%). The psychometric results obtained from validation of the “grado de conocimientos sobre diabetes en docentes del ámbito escolar” (Spanish for “level of knowledge of diabetes in school teachers”)—GCDDaE questionnaire through expert judgment and the pre-test indicate that it is recommended for use as it is both relevant and quick and easy to administer.
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spelling pubmed-76995772020-11-29 Content Validation of an Instrument for the Assessment of School Teachers’ Levels of Knowledge of Diabetes through Expert Judgment Luque-Vara, Trinidad Linares-Manrique, Marta Fernández-Gómez, Elisabet Martín-Salvador, Adelina Sánchez-Ojeda, María Angustias Enrique-Mirón, Carmen Int J Environ Res Public Health Article The objective of this study was to describe the content validation, through expert judgment, of a questionnaire for determining the level of knowledge that school teachers have of diabetes in order to design relevant educational interventions to improve the health of school-aged children. This psychometric study involved 15 experts who assessed each of the items in the instrument. The results revealed that the strength of agreement shown by the questionnaire ranged from substantial to almost perfect in its four dimensions, with the characteristics of “sufficiency” and “relevance” having the highest scores (0.982 and 0.903, respectively) based on the judgments made by the participating experts. Regarding statistical significance, the characteristics “sufficiency”, with p < 0.001, and “relevance”, with p = 0.001, were particularly relevant. The overall degree of understandability for the new version of the instrument was high (91.54%). The psychometric results obtained from validation of the “grado de conocimientos sobre diabetes en docentes del ámbito escolar” (Spanish for “level of knowledge of diabetes in school teachers”)—GCDDaE questionnaire through expert judgment and the pre-test indicate that it is recommended for use as it is both relevant and quick and easy to administer. MDPI 2020-11-19 2020-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7699577/ /pubmed/33228161 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17228605 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Enrique-Mirón, Carmen
Content Validation of an Instrument for the Assessment of School Teachers’ Levels of Knowledge of Diabetes through Expert Judgment
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33228161
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17228605
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