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.

Content Provider	Europe PMC
Author	Mukhopadhyay, Prianka Dey, Indira Haldar, Anima
Copyright Year	2020
Abstract	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 comorbiditiesMaterials 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 Richardson value of 0.70 was obtained for the knowledge section. ICC coefficients were 0.56 (P < 0.00) for knowledge, 0.77 (P < 0.00) for attitude and 0.88 (P < 0.00) for practice sections indicating moderate-to-good correlations. Overall, the instrument developed had acceptable validity and reliability.Conclusion:Overall, the instrument developed had acceptable validity and reliability to assess the perceptions and practices of primary healthcare providers about prevention and control of hypertension and associated comorbidities in the community.
ISSN	09700218
Journal	Indian Journal of Community Medicine : Official Publication of Indian Association of Preventive & Social Medicine
Volume Number	45
PubMed Central reference number	PMC7877438
Issue Number	4
PubMed reference number	33623201
e-ISSN	19983581
DOI	10.4103/ijcm.IJCM_490_19
Language	English
Publisher	Wolters Kluwer - Medknow
Publisher Date	2020-10-28
Publisher Place	India
Access Restriction	Open
Rights License	This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. Copyright: © 2020 Indian Journal of Community Medicine
Subject Keyword	Hypertension primary health care providers questionnaire validation
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health