학술논문
Application of the information-motivation-behavioral-skills model to validate a cognitive and behavioral intervention scale for tuberculosis patients in Jos, Nigeria.
Document Type
Article
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Subject
*RESEARCH methodology evaluation
*HUMAN behavior models
*PSYCHOMETRICS
*ATTITUDES toward illness
*CRONBACH'S alpha
*TUBERCULOSIS
*DESCRIPTIVE statistics
*COGNITIVE testing
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ISSN
1359-1053
Abstract
Psychometric scales can be used to assess the cognition of and behavior toward tuberculosis (TB) disease and anti-TB medicines in TB patients by applying the Information-Motivation-Behavioral-Skills model. This study validated a psychometric scale from the responses of 115 TB patients using principal component (PCA) and reliability analyses. The Cronbach's-alpha was 0.864. The PCA identified 21 factors, with eigenvalues greater than one. Six factors, with factor loading >0.5 had more than two items loaded to a factor. Twenty-five items validated from six factors suggest that the scale can be used for cognitive and behavioral assessment and interventions in tuberculosis patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]