Confirmatory factor analysis of the Questionnaire on the Health Staff's Perceptions Regarding Doutores da Alegria's Interventions.
A confirmatory analysis was performed to validate the Questionnaire on the Health Staff's Perceptions Regarding Doutores da Alegria's Intervention, a 40-item instrument designed to assess pediatric staff's perceptions regarding the effects of Doutores da Alegria, a Brazilian hospital clowning professional organization. Eight dimensions were evaluated: the permanence of Doutores da Alegria's interventions; Doutores da Alegria's intrapersonal and interpersonal effects on their relation to health staff; themselves; staff-children; and staff-family relationships; as well as their effect on staff's cultural development; children's relation to their own disease; and families' attitude regarding their child's condition. In all, 567 health professionals from 13 Brazilian hospitals participated. The instrument's good psychometric features are acknowledged.
1 Doutores da Alegria, Brazil.
Morgana
M
Masetti
2 Center of Educational Research (CIEd), University of Minho, Portugal.
Susana
S
Caires
3 Movel Social, Brazil.
Daniel
D
Brandão
4 Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal.
Diana Aguiar
DA
Vieira
D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001938:Brazil; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003906:Developing Countries; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006776:Hospitals, Pediatric; D006779:Hospitals, Public; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D010988:Play and Playthings; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012931:Social Environment; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014925:Wit and Humor as Topic
benefit finding; clown intervention; confirmatory factor analysis; humor; perception