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Psychometric measure beliefs and preventive behaviors toward COVID-19 based on Health Belief Model (HBM): Validation of a questionnaire

Background: The COVID-19 epidemic is a newly emerging infectious disease. This study was conducted to design an appropriate psychometric questionnaire of cultural and social characteristics to evaluate beliefs and preventive behaviors toward COVID-19 among the Iranian's population according to...

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Autores principales: Moodi, Mitra, Salehiniya, Hamid, Baghernezhad Hesary, Fatemeh, Miri, Mohammadreza
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Iran University of Medical Sciences 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8840865/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35321384
http://dx.doi.org/10.47176/mjiri.35.130
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author Moodi, Mitra
Salehiniya, Hamid
Baghernezhad Hesary, Fatemeh
Miri, Mohammadreza
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Salehiniya, Hamid
Baghernezhad Hesary, Fatemeh
Miri, Mohammadreza
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description Background: The COVID-19 epidemic is a newly emerging infectious disease. This study was conducted to design an appropriate psychometric questionnaire of cultural and social characteristics to evaluate beliefs and preventive behaviors toward COVID-19 among the Iranian's population according to change behavior theory as health belief model (HBM). Methods: The study population included all those who had access to social networks and answered the questionnaire voluntarily. The sample size in this study was 350 people. In this cross-sectional study, a questionnaire was designed using scientific sources and based on the health belief model, and its face and content validity was determined by Content Validity Ratio (CVR), and reliability was determined by the internal consistency; Test-retest was applied to examine the internal consistency of the questionnaire. Data were analyzed using SPSS software version 19. Cronbach’s alpha and Intra-class Correlation Coefficient (ICC) were used for the assessment of the reliability of data. Results: Initially, the questionnaire was designed based on the literature reviews and expert’s opinion in the field of health education with 79 items. After that, 2 of them were deleted and corrected qualitatively by performing the face and content validity of some items. Therefore, finally, a questionnaire with 77 questions was approved. Based on the constructs of the health belief model, the domains of the questionnaire included perceived sensitivity, severity, benefits barrier, self-efficacy, knowledge and behavior.The content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed. The Cronbach’s alpha and ICC for each domain were greater than 0.7. Conclusion: The Questionnaire of beliefs and preventive behaviors toward COVID-19 based on HBM is a valid and reliable instrument in the Iranian population that could be used in related research.
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spelling pubmed-88408652022-03-22 Psychometric measure beliefs and preventive behaviors toward COVID-19 based on Health Belief Model (HBM): Validation of a questionnaire Moodi, Mitra Salehiniya, Hamid Baghernezhad Hesary, Fatemeh Miri, Mohammadreza Med J Islam Repub Iran Original Article Background: The COVID-19 epidemic is a newly emerging infectious disease. This study was conducted to design an appropriate psychometric questionnaire of cultural and social characteristics to evaluate beliefs and preventive behaviors toward COVID-19 among the Iranian's population according to change behavior theory as health belief model (HBM). Methods: The study population included all those who had access to social networks and answered the questionnaire voluntarily. The sample size in this study was 350 people. In this cross-sectional study, a questionnaire was designed using scientific sources and based on the health belief model, and its face and content validity was determined by Content Validity Ratio (CVR), and reliability was determined by the internal consistency; Test-retest was applied to examine the internal consistency of the questionnaire. Data were analyzed using SPSS software version 19. Cronbach’s alpha and Intra-class Correlation Coefficient (ICC) were used for the assessment of the reliability of data. Results: Initially, the questionnaire was designed based on the literature reviews and expert’s opinion in the field of health education with 79 items. After that, 2 of them were deleted and corrected qualitatively by performing the face and content validity of some items. Therefore, finally, a questionnaire with 77 questions was approved. Based on the constructs of the health belief model, the domains of the questionnaire included perceived sensitivity, severity, benefits barrier, self-efficacy, knowledge and behavior.The content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed. The Cronbach’s alpha and ICC for each domain were greater than 0.7. Conclusion: The Questionnaire of beliefs and preventive behaviors toward COVID-19 based on HBM is a valid and reliable instrument in the Iranian population that could be used in related research. Iran University of Medical Sciences 2021-10-06 /pmc/articles/PMC8840865/ /pubmed/35321384 http://dx.doi.org/10.47176/mjiri.35.130 Text en © 2021 Iran University of Medical Sciences https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial-ShareAlike 1.0 License (CC BY-NC-SA 1.0), which allows users to read, copy, distribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited properly.
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Psychometric measure beliefs and preventive behaviors toward COVID-19 based on Health Belief Model (HBM): Validation of a questionnaire
title Psychometric measure beliefs and preventive behaviors toward COVID-19 based on Health Belief Model (HBM): Validation of a questionnaire
title_full Psychometric measure beliefs and preventive behaviors toward COVID-19 based on Health Belief Model (HBM): Validation of a questionnaire
title_fullStr Psychometric measure beliefs and preventive behaviors toward COVID-19 based on Health Belief Model (HBM): Validation of a questionnaire
title_full_unstemmed Psychometric measure beliefs and preventive behaviors toward COVID-19 based on Health Belief Model (HBM): Validation of a questionnaire
title_short Psychometric measure beliefs and preventive behaviors toward COVID-19 based on Health Belief Model (HBM): Validation of a questionnaire
title_sort psychometric measure beliefs and preventive behaviors toward covid-19 based on health belief model (hbm): validation of a questionnaire
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8840865/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35321384
http://dx.doi.org/10.47176/mjiri.35.130
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