Affiliation:
1. Faculty of Pharmacy, Belgrade
Abstract
Background/Aim. Studies on physicians and other health care professionals
indicate that attitudes towards and beliefs in their work with patients, can
affect the quality of health care, and patients' behaviour and compliance,
thus an instrument is needed to survey pharmacists as healthcare providers.
The aim of this study was to describe the development and psychometric
validation of a survey instrument to assess attitudes and beliefs of
pharmacists toward their work with patients (Pharmacists' Attitudes and
Beliefs Scale, PABS). The aim of this research was to determine the
reliability, validity and factor structure of a newly constructed instrument
- PABS. Methods. The statements from the cognitive, affective, and behavioral
areas were identified by literature review and selected to cover the behavior
of pharmacists in providing pharmaceutical care at community settings. The
initial 5- point Likert type scale of 30 items was constructed and after
initial validation its revised form developed. The reliability, construct
validity and factor structure of the scale were established. Results. The
reliability of the scale was determined by the method of internal
consistency, on a convenient sample of 123 community pharmacists. The
Cronbach?s alpha coefficient was 0.67. Factor analysis of principal
components was performed and 7 factors with latent roots greater than 1 were
extracted, explaining 64.92% of total variance, a single 30.84%, 8.20%,
6.55%, 5.63%, 5.01%, 4.68% and 4.01%. Based on the results of factor analysis
in the development of the scale, some items in the scale were excluded
(totally 7), so that the revised form of the PABS contained a total of 23
items. Conclusion. The initial PABS scale did not meet theoretical
statistical criteria for reliability (Cronbach?s alpha coefficient was <
0.7), but the findings indicated its potentially acceptable construct
validity. The results support its use as a research tool to assess the
behavior of pharmacists in daily practice, and provide its use as an
indicator of quality in delivering pharmaceutical care.
Funder
Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia
Publisher
National Library of Serbia
Subject
Pharmacology (medical),General Medicine
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