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ArticleTropical diseases, travel medicine and vaccines2022

Development and validation of a questionnaire to evaluate the knowledge, attitude and practices regarding travel medicine amongst physicians in an apex tertiary hospital in Northern India.

Arvind Kumar, Anand Rajendran, Mohd Usman, Jatin Ahuja, Sameer Samad, Ankit Mittal, Prerna Garg, Upendra Baitha, Piyush Ranjan, Naveet Wig

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Article in Tropical diseases, travel medicine and vaccines, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Arvind KumarDepartment of Medicine, AIIMS, New Delhi, India. linktoarvind@gmail.com.
Anand RajendranDepartment of Medicine, AIIMS, New Delhi, India.
Mohd UsmanDepartment of Medicine, AIIMS, New Delhi, India.
Jatin AhujaInfectious Diseases & Travel Health Specialist, Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi, India.
Sameer SamadDepartment of Medicine, AIIMS, New Delhi, India.
Ankit MittalDepartment of Medicine, AIIMS, New Delhi, India.
Prerna GargDepartment of Medicine, AIIMS, New Delhi, India.
Upendra BaithaDepartment of Medicine, AIIMS, New Delhi, India.
Piyush RanjanDepartment of Medicine, AIIMS, New Delhi, India.
Naveet WigDepartment of Medicine, AIIMS, New Delhi, India.
All India Institute of Medical Sciences Raipur · INAll India Institute of Medical Sciences Bhopal · INAll India Institute of Medical Sciences · INIndraprastha Apollo Hospitals · IN

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Abstract

objectivesTravel medicine focuses primarily on pre-travel preventive care and the conditions and diseases acquired during or after travel. There is a paucity of validated tools to assess the knowledge, attitude and practises of physicians with regard to travel medicine. We attempted to develop a tool to assess existing expertise among Medicine and Infectious Diseases resident doctors with respect to travel medicine.

methodsItem level content validity index (I-CVI) and scale level content validity index (S-CVI/Ave) were estimated for each of the items to establish the content validity. Refined measures of inter-rater agreement (Brennan and Prediger Agreement Coefficient and Gwet's Agreement Coefficient) were estimated for the tool.

resultsThe final version of the questionnaire had satisfactory content validity (I-CVI > 0∙6 and S-CVI/Ave > 0∙9) and possessed high agreement among the raters (Brennan and Prediger AC > 0∙7, p < 0∙01 and Gwet's AC > 0∙8, p < 0∙01) with regard to necessity, clarity and relevance of the scale.

conclusionsThis tool covers a wide range of questions and is scientifically validated. The final version of the tool can be used largely for the assessment of knowledge, attitude and practices among medical practitioners. This is instrumental to build targeted intervention programs to enhance the knowledge regarding travel medicine among health care providers.

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DevelopmentKnowledgePracticeQuestionnaireTravel MedicineValidation

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PMID35642069
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