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| Year : 2022 | Volume
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| Issue : 1 | Page : 134 |
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Psychometric of physicians' awareness, attitudes and performance questionnaire about genetic counseling and testing
Seyyede Maryam Mousavinasab1, Sharifeh Khosravi2, Mahboubeh Ramezanzadeh3
1 Department of Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran
2 Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology, Pediatric Inherited Diseases Research Center, Research Institute for Primordial Prevention of Noncommunicable Disease, Majesty of Maryam Infertility Center, Martyr Beheshti Hospital, Isfahan University of Medical Science, Isfahan, Iran
3 Department of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, School of Medicine, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran
Correspondence Address:
Mahboubeh Ramezanzadeh
Department of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, School of Medicine, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr
Iran
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None  | Check |
DOI: 10.4103/ijpvm.IJPVM_608_20
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Introduction: Considering the key role of physicians in providing genetic counseling services and the lack of studies in this field in Iran, it seems necessary to design a valid and reliable instrument for measuring the awareness, attitude, and performance of general and specialist physicians in genetic counseling. Materials and methods: In this descriptive study, the design and psychometrics of the questionnaire were performed in 4 steps: first, defining the concept of awareness, attitude, and performance of general and specialist physicians in relation to genetic counseling by reviewing texts and articles; second, designing questionnaire items; third, determining the face and content validity by 10 university experts; and forth, determining reliability using Cronbach's alpha coefficient method. Results: The primary version of the questionnaire was designed taking into account 60 items during the first and second stages. In the third step, one item was removed and in the final version of the questionnaire 59 items and the content validity index (CVI) and content validity ratio (CVR) were reported to be 0.98 and 0.92, respectively. Reliability with Cronbach's alpha coefficient was determined 0.82. Conclusion: The final questionnaire with 59 items had appropriate psychometric properties. This questionnaire has the ability to be used by health care providers in health care systems to measure the awareness, attitude, and performance of physicians about genetic counseling. The need for further studies is suggested to measure the other types of validity, such as the structural validity of the questionnaire.
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