La escala de Likert en la valoración de los conocimientos y las actitudes de los profesionales de enfermería en el cuidado de la salud. Antioquia, 2003

ABSTRACT: The objective of this paper is describe the process of validation of scale type Likert used for measure the knowledge and attitudes that nursing professionals of Antioquia (Colombia) had in the communities health care in the 2003. At this meaning an instrument was elaborated using a Likert...

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Autores:
Ospina Rave, Beatriz Elena
Sandoval, Juan de Jesús
Aristizábal Botero, Carlos Andrés
Ramírez Gómez, Martha Cecilia
Tipo de recurso:
Article of investigation
Fecha de publicación:
2005
Institución:
Universidad de Antioquia
Repositorio:
Repositorio UdeA
Idioma:
spa
OAI Identifier:
oai:bibliotecadigital.udea.edu.co:10495/5041
Acceso en línea:
http://hdl.handle.net/10495/5041
Palabra clave:
Escala de Likert
Conocimientos actitudes y prácticas en saluid
Enfermería en salud comunitaria
Promoción de la salud
Salud colectiva
Likert scale
Health knowledge attitudes and practices
Community health nursing
Health promotion
Health collective
Rights
openAccess
License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/co/
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Summary:ABSTRACT: The objective of this paper is describe the process of validation of scale type Likert used for measure the knowledge and attitudes that nursing professionals of Antioquia (Colombia) had in the communities health care in the 2003. At this meaning an instrument was elaborated using a Likert scale, with closed questions, referred to the areas of communities care, health promotion, prevention of disease, human development, social participation and education for health, intention of the thought about questions was guided to value the opinions, enjoyments, the satisfaction and the knowledge about mentioned areas. Their application explored the tendencies and the variances the answers had about attitude toward the health care, either positive or negative. The more notable result was a positive direction in attitude (59%) in the Likert’s scale at the Nursing professionals toward their practice in the human communities care.