Development of an instrument to assess cultural beliefs about physicians

dc.creatorBaeza Rivera, María
dc.creatorBetancourt, Héctor
dc.creatorSalinas Oñate, Natalia
dc.creatorOrtiz, Manuel S.
dc.creatorMarín, Olivia
dc.date2018
dc.date2019-10-28T14:44:38Z
dc.date2019-10-28T14:44:38Z
dc.date2019-10-28
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-14T22:07:36Z
dc.date.available2021-06-14T22:07:36Z
dc.identifierRevista médica de Chile, Vol. 146, N°3, 308-314, 2018
dc.identifierhttp://repositoriodigital.uct.cl/handle/10925/2039
dc.identifier10.4067/s0034-98872018000300308
dc.identifier.urihttp://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/3301115
dc.descriptionBackground: Beliefs about professionals' healthcare may influence healthcare behaviors. Such beliefs are in part the result of the interactions that professionals have with their patients. Recent studies highlight the importance of beliefs about physicians, their effect on health-care behaviors, and the requirement of culturally appropriate tools to measure such beliefs. Aim: To develop and validate a culturally appropriate instrument to measure beliefs about physicians. Material and Methods: Based on a “bottom-up” methodology, a culturally pertinent scale of beliefs about physicians was developed and then validated by expert judges. The resulting scale, with 26 items, was applied to 337 participants aged 31 ± 7 years (85% women). Results: Two factors, grouping 24 items, emerged from the exploratory factor analysis. The first was called negative beliefs about doctors (Cronbach’s α = 0.96) and the second was called positive beliefs about doctors(Cronbach’s α = 0.95). Both factors explain 70 % of the scale variance. Conclusions: The devised instrument has adequate psychometric properties and is also culturally relevant. It allows the assessment of cultural beliefs about physicians.
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dc.sourceRevista médica de Chile
dc.subjectRelación médico paciente
dc.subjectPsicometría
dc.titleIdentificación y medición de creencias culturales sobre los médicos: construcción y validación de un instrumento
dc.titleDevelopment of an instrument to assess cultural beliefs about physicians
dc.typeArtículo de Revista


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