Development and Psychometric of a Questionnaire about Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Nurses towards Neck Pain Prevention

Since nurses' wrong positions during work are directly related to pain in different areas such as neck, therefore, the necessity of designing a questionnaire with acceptable validity and reliability was felt. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to design and validate a questionnaire of knowledge, attitude and practice of nurses regarding neck pain prevention.

The present study was conducted in two parts including questionnaire design and its validity and reliability in poldokhtar city in 1398. Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Questionnaire was used in this study. Content validity ratio and content validity index were used to determine the content validity using the opinions of 10 experts. Cronbach's alpha and test-retest reliability were used to evaluate the external and internal reliability, respectively.

The initial questionnaire consisted of 44 questions. 16 questions were removed during the validation process. Knowledge, attitude, and practice consisted of 14, 9, and 5 questions, respectively. the ratio and content validity index were 0.87 and 0.92, respectively, which is acceptable and appropriate for this questionnaire. Cronbach's alpha was 0.85 and the correlation coefficient between the questions in the first and second series was reported to be 0.93, indicating a high correlation between the questionnaire questions.

The present study showed that the designed questionnaire was valid and reliable and can be used to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice of nurses regarding neck pain prevention.