Development And Validation Of Questionnaire To Assess Malaysian Parents’ Knowledge, Practice And Perception On Acetaminophen Poisoning In Children
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Date
2019
Authors
Muhammad Zhariff Muhamad
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Universiti Sains Malaysia
Abstract
Introduction: Acetaminophen (paracetamol) poisoning may lead to serious complications
and adverse health effects in children. A good knowledge, perception and practice is
essential in ensuring the safe use of the drug among children. The objective of this study
is to develop and validate a questionnaire to assess knowledge, perception and practice
among Malaysian parents related to/ on acetaminophen poisoning in children.
Methodology: A cross-sectional study was conducted among volunteered and consented
Malaysian parents who attended Clinical Trial Centre, Advanced Medical and Dental
Institute, Universiti Sains Malaysia and fulfilled the inclusion and exclusion criteria. A
self-administered questionnaire was developed consisting of 67 items that takes 30
minutes to complete and well received by all respondents. The validation of the
questionnaire involved content, face and construct validity stages. The evaluation
included item-level content validity index (i-CVI) and face validity index (i-FVI) for
content and face validity respectively. As for construct validity, the values of KMO and
Bartlett’s sphericity test were taken into account for sampling adequacy as well as factor
loading and communalities for the measurement of exploratory factor analysis. Reliability
analysis involved the use of Cronbach’s alpha and corrected inter-item correlations
(CITC). This questionnaire was divided into three domains, with 67 items distributed to
respective domains. The development of questionnaire was aided from literature review
and brainstorming session with parents
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Acetaminophen , Parents -- Psychology