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BACKGROUND: Professional Social Responsibility is now imperative for the practice of medicine. However, there are no instruments to assess it among physicians. AIM: To construct and evaluate the factorial structure and reliability of a questionnaire designed to measure socially responsible behavior in physicians. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The Questionnaire on Medical Socially Responsible Behavior, consisting of 34 items, was constructed. It was applied to 284 physicians and medical students. After eliminating respondents who omitted questions, a valid sample of 214 individuals aged 23 to 67 years (51.4% males) was obtained. We assessed the factorial structure, reliability, discriminative ability of the items and correlation between factors. RESULTS: Exploratory factorial analysis, conducted using the principal axis method, identified the presence of three factors and considered 30 items. The reliability of the factors, assessed using Cronbach's alpha, ranged from 0.73 to 0.89. Only one item had a low correlation of 0.3. Correlations between the three factors were direct and high. CONCLUSIONS: The developed questionnaire presents a definite factorial structure, with internally consistent and correlated factors and with adequate psychometric properties.
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Actitud del Personal de Salud , Médicos , Responsabilidad Social , Estudiantes de Medicina , Encuestas y Cuestionarios , Adulto , Anciano , Femenino , Humanos , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Psicometría , Reproducibilidad de los Resultados , Adulto JovenRESUMEN
Se propuso un protocolo consistente en educación continua, dieta, ejercicio y metformina a pacientes con diagnóstico de síndrome de ovario poliquístico. Se controlaron 55 mujeres en edad reproductiva, de abril de 2001 a mayo de 2004. Todas se controlaron al menos 3 veces, por un mínimo de 9 meses de seguimiento. Se realizaron exámenes de laboratorio y controles antropométricos. La edad promedio de las pacientes fue de 29 años. Hubo cambios significativos en las variables estudiadas y logramos demostrar que el protocolo propuesto es capaz de disminuir los riesgos metabólicos de esta enfermedad..