Questionnaire for Physiotherapists Disaster Health Management Core Competencies: A Preliminary Content and Face Validity Study
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Introduction: The healthcare system faces substantial challenges from disasters that require proactive healthcare practitioners, including Physiotherapists, to lead disaster prevention, preparedness, response efforts, and recovery initiatives. Physiotherapists require validated competencies for effective disaster health management, but there is a lack of standard tool. Aim: The present study aimed on developing the core competencies questionnaire possessed by the Physiotherapists for disaster health management and seeks the preliminary content and face validation of the questionnaire. Materials and Methods: The present methodological study was exploratory mixed method research to design and psychometrics the instrument measuring disaster health management competencies of Physiotherapists in India conducted from 25-09- 2023 to 28-02-2024 at Galgotias University, Greater Noida, India. The content validity of the questionnaire through two phases: questionnaire development and judgement. The development phase involved identification of constructs, followed by item generation and instrument formation. A seven-member expert panel did the judgement of the questionnaire with the Delphi method approach. After three rounds of panel discussions and based on expert comments, the questionnaire was modified and assessed for Content Validity Ratio (CVR), Item Content Validity Index (I-CVI), and Questionnaire/scale Content Validity Index (S-CVI). Further kappa statistics were performed for inter-rater reliability among experts through using IBM Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) statistics for windows version 27 (IBM Corp, Armonk, NY, USA). Final face validation was done through percentage agreement on experts’ comments. Results: The CVR analysis of 104 items produced 39 items with CVR higher than 0.99. Knowledge received 13 items and skills received 14 items while attitude included 12 items as the main constructs. The expert panel unanimously supported all chosen items because their I-CVI scores rested between 0.8 and 1. The calculated S-CVI score reached 0.95, which indicates high content validity for the questionnaire. The expert panel achieved good to very good agreement when rating construct clarity at 0.622, yet simplicity obtained very good agreement at 0.748, along with relevance scoring only moderate agreement at 0.404. The results from face validation showed that 97% of experts agreed on the items. Conclusion: Preliminary content and face validity assessment demonstrate suitable quantity indices for the tool. The research gives guidance for future psychometric testing of this new assessment questionnaire to evaluate Physiotherapists’ disaster health management competencies.
Authors: Jyoti Sharma, Aksh Chahal, Ranjul Rastogi
Language: English
Subfield: Emergency Medical Services
Field: Health Professions
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $275
OpenAlex ID: W7083594246
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