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Development and Validation of a Tool to Assess Perceptions and Practices Regarding Hypertension and Associated Comorbidities among Primary Health Care Providers of a Rural Community in India by Indira Dey; Prianka Mukhopadhyay; Anima Haldar is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Background: Primary health-care providers can play a crucial role in the prevention and early detection of non-communicable diseases. Knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) survey of primary health-care providers is needed to assess their gaps in knowledge, and identify barriers for effective implementation of the national program. However, such KAP instruments are lacking. ## Objective: The aim of this study is to develop, validate and assess the reliability of a questionnaire to determine the KAPs of primary health-care providers about hypertension and associated comorbidities ## Materials and Methods: This study was conducted in the following steps: item construction and psychometric testing, by validity and reliability analysis. ## Results: The final KAP questionnaire comprised 25 knowledge items, 12 attitude items, and 8 practice items. Exploratory factor analysis using principal axis factoring with varimax rotation revealed four dimensions in the attitude section explaining 35.93% and two dimensions in practice sections explaining 65.96% of the total variance. Cronbach's alpha coefficient for attitude and practice session measured 0.65 and 0.85, respectively. A Kuder Rich
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- Author
- Indira Dey; Prianka Mukhopadhyay; Anima Haldar
- Publisher
- Medknow
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)