Assessing Prevention Protocols by a Brief Questionnaire in the Infectious Respiratory Diseases Pandemics: An Application in Pedestrian Population in COVID-19 Pandemic
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 infect...
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Tehran University of Medical Sciences
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| author | Ali Jafari-Khounigh Alireza Razzaghi Hamid Sharifi Shahram Habibzadeh Seyed Taghi Heydari Rasool Entezarmahdi Mostafa Farahbakhsh Alireza Ansari Moghaddam Mahdi Rezaei Mohammad Saadati Ehsan Sarbazi Morteza Haghighi Mina Golestani Homayoun Sadeghi-Bazargani |
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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.
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| spelling | doaj-art-9012dd501cc442de9b7a7b2249de95fa2025-02-09T08:50:57ZengTehran University of Medical SciencesActa Medica Iranica0044-60251735-96942024-12-0162410.18502/acta.v62i4.17433Assessing Prevention Protocols by a Brief Questionnaire in the Infectious Respiratory Diseases Pandemics: An Application in Pedestrian Population in COVID-19 PandemicAli Jafari-Khounigh0Alireza Razzaghi1Hamid Sharifi2Shahram Habibzadeh3Seyed Taghi Heydari4Rasool Entezarmahdi5Mostafa Farahbakhsh6Alireza Ansari Moghaddam7Mahdi Rezaei8Mohammad Saadati9Ehsan Sarbazi10Morteza Haghighi11Mina Golestani12Homayoun Sadeghi-Bazargani13Road Traffic Injury Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.Children Growth Research Center, Research Institute for Prevention of Non-Communicable Diseases, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, Iran.HIV/STI Surveillance Research Center, and WHO Collaborating Center for HIV Surveillance, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman, IranDepartment of Infectious Disease, Ardabil University of Medical Science, Ardabil, Iran.Health Policy Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.School of Medicine, Social Determinant of Health Research Centre, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran.Research Center of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, IranHealth Promotion Research Center, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, IranRoad Traffic Injury Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, IranKhoy University of Medical Sciences, Khoy, Iran.Road Traffic Injury Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.Department of Public Health, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran.Medical Philosophy and History Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.Research Center for Evidence-Based Medicine, Iranian EBM Centre: A Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) Center of Excellence, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran. 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. https://acta.tums.ac.ir/index.php/acta/article/view/10795ValidityReliabilityPsychometricPedestrianCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)Epidemiology |
| spellingShingle | Ali Jafari-Khounigh Alireza Razzaghi Hamid Sharifi Shahram Habibzadeh Seyed Taghi Heydari Rasool Entezarmahdi Mostafa Farahbakhsh Alireza Ansari Moghaddam Mahdi Rezaei Mohammad Saadati Ehsan Sarbazi Morteza Haghighi Mina Golestani Homayoun Sadeghi-Bazargani Assessing Prevention Protocols by a Brief Questionnaire in the Infectious Respiratory Diseases Pandemics: An Application in Pedestrian Population in COVID-19 Pandemic Acta Medica Iranica Validity Reliability Psychometric Pedestrian Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Epidemiology |
| title | Assessing Prevention Protocols by a Brief Questionnaire in the Infectious Respiratory Diseases Pandemics: An Application in Pedestrian Population in COVID-19 Pandemic |
| title_full | Assessing Prevention Protocols by a Brief Questionnaire in the Infectious Respiratory Diseases Pandemics: An Application in Pedestrian Population in COVID-19 Pandemic |
| title_fullStr | Assessing Prevention Protocols by a Brief Questionnaire in the Infectious Respiratory Diseases Pandemics: An Application in Pedestrian Population in COVID-19 Pandemic |
| title_full_unstemmed | Assessing Prevention Protocols by a Brief Questionnaire in the Infectious Respiratory Diseases Pandemics: An Application in Pedestrian Population in COVID-19 Pandemic |
| title_short | Assessing Prevention Protocols by a Brief Questionnaire in the Infectious Respiratory Diseases Pandemics: An Application in Pedestrian Population in COVID-19 Pandemic |
| title_sort | assessing prevention protocols by a brief questionnaire in the infectious respiratory diseases pandemics an application in pedestrian population in covid 19 pandemic |
| topic | Validity Reliability Psychometric Pedestrian Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Epidemiology |
| url | https://acta.tums.ac.ir/index.php/acta/article/view/10795 |
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