فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Considering the important role of universities in advancing educational,social, cultural, economic, and political affairs and given the significant and effective role of socialdeterminants of health (SDH) in personal and social life, this study aimed to design a preliminaryquestionnaire to assess the awareness and attitude of students and professors of relevant medicalsciences departments toward the SDH.METHODS: This is a descriptive survey study of the instrumentation type and is done on thestudents and professors of Isfahan and Kashan medical sciences universities in 2019. Thecontent and face validity of the questionnaire were assessed. Cronbach’s alpha coefficient andthe correlation coefficient for each question as well as the total score of the questionnaire werereported for this attitude measurement questionnaire. The difficulty coefficient, optimum difficultylevel, discrimination coefficient, and the relevant variance were calculated for every question in theawareness measurement questionnaire.RESULTS: The internal consistency of the questionnaire for the awareness toward the SDH for 15questions was 0.742. This consistency was acceptable for 18 questions in the attitude measurementquestionnaire after omitting two questions with not appropriate distinguishing ability. The difficultylevel of the questions was relatively high.CONCLUSION: Given that no tool was observed in the search strategy to measure the SDH,therefore, the design and psychometrics of such a tool can be used to measure the awareness andattitude of the target audiences; since this tool had an acceptable validity and reliability at its initialstages, researchers are suggested to apply it for standardization in different academic societies.