Volume 25, Issue 108, February, 2021

Cognitive interview for developing the instrument for high risk patients with diabetes and hypertension for Chronic Kidney diseases - Instrument about Measurement of Perception, Awareness, Social Support (I am PASS) scale

Shah PB^1♦, Jeyaseelan L², Soundararajan P³, Sathiyasekaran BWC⁴

¹Professor & Head, Dept of Community Medicine, SRMC & RI, SRIHER, Chennai, India
²Professor, Dept of Bio-statistics, CMC, Vellore, India
³Former Professor & Head, Dept of Nephrology, SRMC & RI, SRIHER, Consultant, Apollo Hospital, Hyderabad, India
⁴Professor, Dept of Community Medicine, SRMC & RI, SRIHER, Chennai, India

^♦Corresponding author
Professor & Head, Dept of Community Medicine, SRMC & RI, SRIHER, Chennai, India; Email: drpankajbshah@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

Objectives: The objective is developing an instrument to assess the perception, awareness and social support for his risk patients with diabetes and hypertension towards chronic kidney diseases using cognitive interview. Methods: The items of PASS instrument were identified after extensive literature review and with the experts. Think aloud method of cognitive interview was used for the field staff and patients with diabetes and hypertension. Results: Six field staff and five patients with diabetes and hypertension were involved. Revised version of PASS instrument with 40 item instrument with 5 point likert scale was found to be a simple, user friendly, easily comprehensive version which takes about 30-40 minutes for an individual to respond. Conclusion: This multidimensional PASS instrument is based on health belief mode and its items comprises perception, awareness related to various aspects of chronic kidney diseases and its risk factors.

Keywords: Cognitive interview, Chronic Kidney diseases, Perception, Awareness, Social Support

Medical Science, 2021, 25(108), 374-380

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