A scale to measure attitudes toward community medicine.
A questionnaire to measure attitudes toward community medicine held by general practitioners was designed, and a 35-item scale with a Likert response formal was constructed. The Attitudes Toward Community Medicine scale consists of six subscales relating to key areas of community medicine. The final scale is valid and reliable for group comparisons, with alpha coefficients ranging from alpha = 0.54 to alpha = 0.84. The instrument may be used to evaluate the effectiveness of community medicine teaching, to describe differences in beliefs of practitioners and to estimate changes in attitudes over time.
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Newcastle.
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D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003154:Community Medicine; D006801:Humans; D009517:New South Wales; D010821:Physicians, Family; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires