Validity and reliability of instruments designed to measure factors influencing the overuse of antibiotics

Highlights ► We evaluated a number of scales that were designed to measure the factors influencing the use of antibiotics. ► We evaluated the development of the scales. ► We evaluated the validation process, taking place in the development of each scale. Content validity, face validity, construct va...

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Published inJournal of infection and public health Vol. 5; no. 3; pp. 221 - 232
Main Authors Alumran, Arwa, Hou, Xiang-Yu, Hurst, Cameron
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Elsevier Ltd 01.06.2012
Elsevier
Subjects
Anti-Bacterial Agents - therapeutic use
Antibiotics
Humans
Infectious Disease
Internal Medicine
Measurement instrument
Psycho-social factors
Reliability
Reproducibility of Results
Surveys and Questionnaires - standards
Validation Studies as Topic
Validity
Psycho-social factors
Validity
Measurement instrument
Antibiotics
Reliability
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Summary:Highlights ► We evaluated a number of scales that were designed to measure the factors influencing the use of antibiotics. ► We evaluated the development of the scales. ► We evaluated the validation process, taking place in the development of each scale. Content validity, face validity, construct validity, and criterion-related validity were assessed in each scale. ► From the reviewed literature, no scale appeared to have gone through a full validation process. ► It is important to develop a fully validated scale that measures the factors influencing the overuse of antibiotics (e.g., knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, beliefs).
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ISSN:1876-0341
1876-035X
DOI:10.1016/j.jiph.2012.03.003