Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: The development of a knowledge test of depression and its treatment for patients suffering from non-psychotic depression: a psychometric assessment | BMC Psychiatry BioMed Central Open Access Research article The development of a knowledge test of depression and its treatment for patients suffering from non-psychotic depression a psychometric assessment Adel Gabriel 1 and Claudio Violato2 Address University of Calgary and Calgary Health region 2000 Pegasus Rd NE Calgary AB T2E 8K7 Canada and 2Department Community Health Sciences Faculty of Medicine University of Calgary 3330 Hospital Drive NW Calgary AB T2N 4N1 Canada Email Adel Gabriel - gabriel@ Claudio Violato - violato@ Corresponding author Published 15 September 2009 Received 23 January 2009 Accepted 15 September 2009 BMC Psychiatry 2009 9 56 doi l47l-244X-9-56 p p This article is available from http l47l-244X 9 56 2009 Gabriel and Violato licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background To develop and psychometrically assess a multiple choice question MCQ instrument to test knowledge of depression and its treatments in patients suffering from depression. Methods A total of 63 depressed patients and twelve psychiatric experts participated. Based on empirical evidence from an extensive review theoretical knowledge and in consultations with experts 27-item MCQ knowledge of depression and its treatment test was constructed. Data collected from the psychiatry experts were used to assess evidence of content validity for the instrument. Results Cronbach s alpha of the instrument was and there was an overall agreement items are highly relevant between experts about the relevance of the MCQs to test patient knowledge on depression and its treatments. There was an overall satisfactory patients performance on the MCQs with correct answers. .
