A validated instrument to assess dentists' knowledge about diabetes: the dental - diabetes questionnaire
Braz. j. oral sci
; 21: e225337, jan.-dez. 2022. ilus
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| ID: biblio-1366230
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BR218.1
ABSTRACT
Aim:
To elaborate and validate an instrument for Brazilian Portuguese speakers, to assess dentists' knowledge about care of patients with diabetes mellitus (Dental-Diabetes).Methods:
Methodological study comprising four stages a) Elaboration of instrument; b) Content validation (computing Content Validity Index - CVI) based on Expert Committee assessment; c) Pre-test with 30 dentists, followed by assessment of suggestions by Expert Committee; d) Psychometric validation through instrument application in a sample of 127 dentists by means of the web tool e-Surv. Cronbach's alpha and intraclass correlation coefficients were used to evaluate, respectively, internal consistency and reproducibility.Results:
The final version of the instrument consists of 22 questions (7 on sociodemographic data and 15 querying dentists' knowledge) and those submitted for validation attained a CVI of 0.95 [95% CI 0.916-0,981], showing satisfactory internal consistency, with 0.794 Cronbach's alpha [95% CI 0.741-0.842] and an intraclass correlation coefficient of 0.799 [95% CI 0.746-0.846] between the test and retest scores.Conclusions:
Dental-Diabetes is a comprehensive instrument, culturally adequate and validated to assess dentists' knowledge about care of patients with diabetesPalavras-chave
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
BBO
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LILACS
Assunto principal:
Conhecimentos, Atitudes e Prática em Saúde
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Inquéritos e Questionários
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Odontólogos
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Diabetes Mellitus
Tipo de estudo:
Qualitative_research
Limite:
Female
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Braz. j. oral sci
Assunto da revista:
ODONTOLOGIA
Ano de publicação:
2022
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Brasil
País de publicação:
Brasil