Instrument:

A questionnaire measuring pharmacists and physician’s attitudes to antibiotic policies

Implementation
outcome:

Acceptability

Instrument summary:

12-item questionnaire measuring pharmacists and physician’s attitudes to antibiotic policies

Level of analysis:

Provider

Country of application:

Australia

Psychometric quality
(ConPsyCL):

2 / 22

Global reliability
score (COSMIN):

Poor

Global validity
score (COSMIN):

Poor

Responsiveness
score (COSMIN):

Poor

Usability score:

Good

12 items

Reference:

Adu A, Simpson JM, Armour CL.

Attitudes of pharmacists and physicians to antibiotic policies in hospitals.

J Clin Pharm Ther. 1999;24(3):181–9.

Psychometric quality
(ConPsyCL):

ConPsyCL score:

2 / 22

Reliability (Max 5pts)

Internal consistency (Max 3pts)

0 / 1Item internal consistency
/ Item total correlation

1 / 2Alpha

 

Test-retest or inter-rater (Max 2pts)

0 / 1 Item level

0 / 1 Factor level

 

Validity (Max 5pts)

0 / 1 Content validity

0 / 1 Face validity

0 / 1 Convergent validity

0 / 1 Discriminant validity

0 / 1 Discriminative validity

 

Factor Analysis (Max 12pts)

0 / 1 Adequacy measures

0 / 1 Kaiser criterion

0 / 1 Variance explained
/ Parallel analysis

1 / 1 Main loadings

0 / 4 EFA goodness of fit

0 / 4 CFA Goodness of fit

 

0 / -2 Penalty

Methodological quality:
(COSMIN)

Reliability

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Internal consistency

Fair

Reliability

Poor

Measurement error

Poor

Global reliability score

Poor

Validity

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Content validity

Excellent

Structural validity

Fair

Hypotheses testing

Poor

Cross-cultural validity

Not assessed

Criterion validity

Not assessed

Global validity score

Poor

Responsiveness

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Responsiveness

Poor