Development and Validation of Oral Health Knowledge, Attitude and Behavior Questionnaire among Indian Adults

Medicina

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Somasundaram Prasadh¹  Mohmed Isaqali Karobari²  Anand Marya³  Nadiah Wan-Arfah⁴  Nyi Nyi Naing⁵  Siddharthan Selvaraj⁵ 

[1] ACP Office—Research, National Dental Centre Singapore (NDCS), Singapore 168938, Singapore;

[2] Conservative Dentistry Unit, School of Dental Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Health Campus, Kubang Kerian, Kota Bharu 16150, Kelantan, Malaysia;

[3] Department of Orthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Puthisastra, Phnom Penh 12211, Cambodia;

[4] Faculty of Health Sciences, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Kuala Terengganu 20400, Terengganu, Malaysia;

[5] Faculty of Medicine, Medical Campus, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Kuala Terengganu 20400, Terengganu, Malaysia;

关键词: psychometric properties;    reliability;    oral health;    knowledge;    attitude and behavior;   

DOI  :  10.3390/medicina58010068

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Background and objectives: The Indian population faces numerous challenges to attain better oral hygiene due to a lack of oral health literacy. For the past 10 years, the prevalence of dental-related conditions in India has become a considerable problem in every state of India. A health-education-based oral health promotion strategy will be an ideal choice for the Indian population instead of endorsing conventional oral health promotion. The use of unsuitable tools to measure may lead to misleading and vague findings that might result in a flawed plan for cessation programs and deceitful effectiveness. Therefore, the research aimed to develop and validate an instrument that can assess the oral health knowledge, attitude and behavior (KAB) of adults in India. Materials and Methods: This study was carried among adults in India, who live in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. A questionnaire was fabricated and then validated using content, face, as well as construct. The knowledge domain was validated using item response theory analysis (IRT), whereas exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was used to validate the behavior domain and attitude. Results: Four principal sections, i.e., knowledge, attitude, demography and behavior, were used to fabricate a questionnaire following validation. Following analysis of item response theory on the knowledge domain, all analyzed items in the domain were within the ideal range of difficulty and discrimination. The Kaiser–Meyer–Olkin measure of sampling adequacy was 0.65 for the attitude and 0.66 for the behavior domain. A Bartlett’s test of sphericity was conducted and demonstrated that outcomes for both domains were highly significant (p < 0.001). The factor analysis resulted in three factors with a total of eight items in the attitude domain and three factors with a total of seven items in the behavior domain depicting satisfactory factor loading (>0.3). Across the three factors, i.e., knowledge, attitude and behavior, internal consistency reliability was tested using Cronbach’s alpha, and the values obtained were 0.67, 0.87, 0.67, and 0.88, respectively. Conclusions: The findings of this study that assessed validity and reliability showed that the developed questionnaire had an acceptable psychometric property for measuring oral health KAB among adults in India.

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