Elaboración y validación del «Cuestionario de actitudes hacia la ética profesional en Fisioterapia»

Abstract

PurposeIn the university context the creation and validation of questionnaires to be applied in assessment of new teaching models that guarantee the acquisition of ethical competence is necessary. This study aims at presenting the creation, assessment of internal consistence and unidimensionality of the “Attitudes questionnaire towards professional ethics in Physiotherapy” (CAEPFIS). Material and methodA questionnaire analyzing attitudes towards professional ethics in Physiotherapy students (CAEPFIS) was created by means of a study carried out with physiotherapy students in the last year of their degree (n=100). An analysis of internal consistency (Cronbach's Alpha) was carried out, whilst differentiator elements were detected and deleted. Afterwards, unidimensionality of the questionnaire was analyzed (factorial analysis of principal components, Barlett's test of sphericity and Kaiser-Meyer-OIkin KMO). Finally, the questionnaire comprised 33 items. Predictive Analytics Software (PASW) 18.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA) was used. ResultsCAEPFIS shows a high internal consistency (Cronbach's Alfa=0.898). Items of CAEPFIS are close to the desired unidimensionality (Factorial Analysis of Principal Components: KMO=0.762; χ2=1,871.874; df=528; p<0.001). The first factor shows a good proportion of total variance, explains the 25.8% of it and all items present weights higher than 0.3. ConclusionsCAEPFIS shows internal consistency and unidimensionality to be used as a tool of data collection to analyze attitudes towards professional ethics in physiotherapy students.