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Development and Validation of the Knowledge and Attitude Scale Toward COVID-19 Pandemic Breaking Transmission Chain (KA-C) Among Iranian Population

Objectives: We aimed to develop a scale and evaluate this scale's validity and reliability to measure factors affecting people's knowledge and attitudes toward the pandemic breaking transmission chain. Methods: This exploratory mixed-method study was carried out in two phases: (1) item gen...

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Autores principales: Abounoori, Mahdi, Maddah, Mohammad Moein, Sharif Nia, Hamid, Rahmatpour, Pardis, Khosravifar, Shaghayegh, SamadiKouchaksaraei, Mohammad, Khosravifar, Shahrzad
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7925831/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33681135
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.627013
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author Abounoori, Mahdi
Maddah, Mohammad Moein
Sharif Nia, Hamid
Rahmatpour, Pardis
Khosravifar, Shaghayegh
SamadiKouchaksaraei, Mohammad
Khosravifar, Shahrzad
author_facet Abounoori, Mahdi
Maddah, Mohammad Moein
Sharif Nia, Hamid
Rahmatpour, Pardis
Khosravifar, Shaghayegh
SamadiKouchaksaraei, Mohammad
Khosravifar, Shahrzad
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description Objectives: We aimed to develop a scale and evaluate this scale's validity and reliability to measure factors affecting people's knowledge and attitudes toward the pandemic breaking transmission chain. Methods: This exploratory mixed-method study was carried out in two phases: (1) item generation using literature reviews and interviews and, (2) item reduction by psychometric assessments of the developed scale. The face, content, construct (exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis), convergent, and discriminant validity of the scale were assessed in the Iranian population (n = 500) from March to June 2020. The Composite Reliability (CR) and the internal consistency correlation coefficient were estimated. Results: The Knowledge and Attitude Scale Toward COVID-19 Pandemic Breaking Transmission Chain (KA-C) among the Iranian population included 18 items. Two factors with a whole variance of 66.05% were identified by exploratory factor analysis. Factors were labeled as “health literacy” and “home health empowerment.” The confirmatory factor analysis showed the goodness of fit. The CR of the scale for first and second factors were 0.965 and 0.833 receptively. The scale's internal consistency correlation coefficient was acceptable (Cronbach's alpha = 0.960 and 0.823, average interitem correlation = 0.643 and 0.635, McDonald's omega = 0.963 and 0.829, for the first and second factor, receptively). Conclusion: The KA-C scale can be exerted to screen the people's knowledge and attitude about the COVID-19 pandemic breaking the transmission chain as a valid and reliable scale for further policymaking, health care providers, and for a multi-dimensional psychosocial assessment of the pandemic period.
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spelling pubmed-79258312021-03-04 Development and Validation of the Knowledge and Attitude Scale Toward COVID-19 Pandemic Breaking Transmission Chain (KA-C) Among Iranian Population Abounoori, Mahdi Maddah, Mohammad Moein Sharif Nia, Hamid Rahmatpour, Pardis Khosravifar, Shaghayegh SamadiKouchaksaraei, Mohammad Khosravifar, Shahrzad Front Public Health Public Health Objectives: We aimed to develop a scale and evaluate this scale's validity and reliability to measure factors affecting people's knowledge and attitudes toward the pandemic breaking transmission chain. Methods: This exploratory mixed-method study was carried out in two phases: (1) item generation using literature reviews and interviews and, (2) item reduction by psychometric assessments of the developed scale. The face, content, construct (exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis), convergent, and discriminant validity of the scale were assessed in the Iranian population (n = 500) from March to June 2020. The Composite Reliability (CR) and the internal consistency correlation coefficient were estimated. Results: The Knowledge and Attitude Scale Toward COVID-19 Pandemic Breaking Transmission Chain (KA-C) among the Iranian population included 18 items. Two factors with a whole variance of 66.05% were identified by exploratory factor analysis. Factors were labeled as “health literacy” and “home health empowerment.” The confirmatory factor analysis showed the goodness of fit. The CR of the scale for first and second factors were 0.965 and 0.833 receptively. The scale's internal consistency correlation coefficient was acceptable (Cronbach's alpha = 0.960 and 0.823, average interitem correlation = 0.643 and 0.635, McDonald's omega = 0.963 and 0.829, for the first and second factor, receptively). Conclusion: The KA-C scale can be exerted to screen the people's knowledge and attitude about the COVID-19 pandemic breaking the transmission chain as a valid and reliable scale for further policymaking, health care providers, and for a multi-dimensional psychosocial assessment of the pandemic period. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-02-17 /pmc/articles/PMC7925831/ /pubmed/33681135 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.627013 Text en Copyright © 2021 Abounoori, Maddah, Sharif Nia, Rahmatpour, Khosravifar, SamadiKouchaksaraei and Khosravifar. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Public Health
Abounoori, Mahdi
Maddah, Mohammad Moein
Sharif Nia, Hamid
Rahmatpour, Pardis
Khosravifar, Shaghayegh
SamadiKouchaksaraei, Mohammad
Khosravifar, Shahrzad
Development and Validation of the Knowledge and Attitude Scale Toward COVID-19 Pandemic Breaking Transmission Chain (KA-C) Among Iranian Population
title Development and Validation of the Knowledge and Attitude Scale Toward COVID-19 Pandemic Breaking Transmission Chain (KA-C) Among Iranian Population
title_full Development and Validation of the Knowledge and Attitude Scale Toward COVID-19 Pandemic Breaking Transmission Chain (KA-C) Among Iranian Population
title_fullStr Development and Validation of the Knowledge and Attitude Scale Toward COVID-19 Pandemic Breaking Transmission Chain (KA-C) Among Iranian Population
title_full_unstemmed Development and Validation of the Knowledge and Attitude Scale Toward COVID-19 Pandemic Breaking Transmission Chain (KA-C) Among Iranian Population
title_short Development and Validation of the Knowledge and Attitude Scale Toward COVID-19 Pandemic Breaking Transmission Chain (KA-C) Among Iranian Population
title_sort development and validation of the knowledge and attitude scale toward covid-19 pandemic breaking transmission chain (ka-c) among iranian population
topic Public Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7925831/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33681135
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.627013
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