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

• Published in: Journal of infection and public health Vol. 5; no. 3; pp. 221 - 232
• Main Authors: Alumran, Arwa, Hou, Xiang-Yu, Hurst, Cameron
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• 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

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...