| چکیده انگلیسی مقاله |
To perform effective prevention programs, we need to know how well people follow prevention protocols, like mask use and social distancing, measuring using standard tools. This study aims to develop and validate a brief questionnaire to assess the compliance with prevention protocols against infectious respiratory diseases pandemics including COVID-19 in pedestrians. This cross-sectional study was conducted using convenience sampling method in May and June 2021. Construct validity of the questionnaire was assessed using Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA). Content validity was evaluated by quantitative method, thus, Content Validity Ratio (CVR) and Content Validity Index (CVI) were calculated. For reliability of the questionnaire, the internal consistency using Cronbach’s alpha, and test-retest reliability using Spearman-Brown correlation coefficient were assessed. A total of 324 persons from three provinces of Iran participated in this study. The mean age (SD) of participants was 41.5 (16.7). The CVR values resulted in the elimination of two questions. The Scale level CVI/Average (S-CVI/Ave) was equal to 0.992; and Scale level CVI/Universal Agreement (S-CVI/UA) was 0.889. One factor with five items emerged from principal component factor analysis accounting for 51.99% of the variance. Cronbach’s alpha coefficient equal to 0.76 indicated an acceptable internal consistency and the Spearman-Brown correlation coefficient of 0.939 depicted stability of the questionnaire. This questionnaire is a brief tool with acceptable validity and reliability to evaluate the compliance with preventive protocols during infectious respiratory diseases outbreaks in order for policy-makers to make effective interventions to slow down the spread of disease. |
| نویسندگان مقاله |
| Ali Jafari-Khounigh
Road Traffic Injury Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
| Alireza Razzaghi
Children Growth Research Center, Research Institute for Prevention of Non-Communicable Diseases, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, Iran.
| Hamid Sharifi
HIV/STI Surveillance Research Center, and WHO Collaborating Center for HIV Surveillance, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman, Iran
| Shahram Habibzadeh
Department of Infectious Disease, Ardabil University of Medical Science, Ardabil, Iran.
| Seyed Taghi Heydari
Health Policy Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
| Rasool Entezarmahdi
School of Medicine, Social Determinant of Health Research Centre, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran.
| Mostafa Farahbakhsh
Research Center of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
| Alireza Ansari Moghaddam
Health Promotion Research Center, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran
| Mahdi Rezaei
Road Traffic Injury Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
| Mohammad Saadati
Khoy University of Medical Sciences, Khoy, Iran.
| Ehsan Sarbazi
Road Traffic Injury Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
| Morteza Haghighi
Department of Public Health, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran.
| Mina Golestani
Medical Philosophy and History Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
| Homayoun Sadeghi-Bazargani
Research Center for Evidence-Based Medicine, Iranian EBM Centre: A Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) Center of Excellence, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
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