Development of knowledge,attitude and behavior assessment questionnaire for home palliative care and its reliability and validity test
LAI Lichong
PAN Xiao
HUANG Ping
FENG Xiaoling
CHAI Yidan
PAN Qini
HUANG Huiqiao
Abstract：Objective:To develop a knowledge,attitude and behavior assessment questionnaire for home palliative care,and to test its reliability and validity in cancer patients.Methods:Using the knowledge,belief,and practice theory as the framework and the behavior change round theory as guidance,knowledge,attitude and behavior assessment questionnaire for home palliative care was constructed through literature analysis,semi-structured interviews,expert inquiry,and pre-investigation.Using convenience sampling method,cancer patients from 5 tertiary comprehensive hospitals in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region were selected as the research subjects in January 2024 for questionnaire reliability and validity testing.Results:The knowledge,attitude and behavior assessment questionnaire for home palliative care formed included 3 dimensions(knowledge,attitude,and behavior)with 29 items.The item-level content validity index were ranged from 0.873 to 1.000,and average scale-level content validity index was 0.941.The cumulative variance contribution rate of the 3 common factors with eigenvalues greater than 1 extracted by exploratory factor analysis was 66.289%.The results of confirmatory factor analysis showed that the model had good fit,the χ2/ν was 1.816,goodness of fit index was 0.866,comparative goodness of fit index was 0.923,root mean square residual was 0.042.The overall Cronbach's a coefficient of the questionnaire was 0.947,the split-half reliability was 0.870,and the test-retest reliability of the 3 dimensions were ranged from 0.887 to 0.941.Conclusions:The knowledge,attitude and behavior assessment questionnaire for home palliative care developed has good reliability and validity,and can provide reference for the evaluation of home palliative care service recipients.
Keywords：homepalliative careknowledgeattitude and behaviorcancerquestionnairereliabilityvalidityDelphi method
Publication Date：2025-01-24
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 262-266 )