Abstract

Objective To develop a knowlodge-attitude-practice questionnaire (KAPQ) for abdominal surgery patients,in order to provide an available tool to evaluate the KAP status of patients' postoperative pain.Methods The KAPQ was established on the basis of clinical experience,literature review and expert consultation.Ninety patients with abdominal surgery in a three level hospital in Jiangsu province were chosen by convenient sampling and SPSS was used for the scale reliability and validity.Results The internal consistency reliabilities of the KAPQ and its three subscales were respectively 0.899,0.933,0.903 and 0.888.The copy of reliability of three subscales were respectively 0.886,0.763 and 0.821.The content coefficients of three subscales were respectively 0.946,0.921 and 0.949.Factor analysis showed that the questionnaire had good construct validity with a common explaining variance more than 0.4.Conclusions The KAPQ has good reliability and validity,thus it can be used as an effective tool to evaluate the health-related knowledge-attitudepractice of the abdominal surgery patients' postoperative pain. Key words: Abdomen ; Postoperative pain ; Health-related knowledge-attitude-practice ; Development of questionnaire ; Reliability; Validity

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