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[Working out a questionnaire to study the relationship between doctors and the drug industry]
S Galán Herrera1, M T Delgado Marroquín, R Altisent Trota
1Médico de Familia, Doctora en Medicina, Centro de Salud Puerta de Madrid, Area 3, Madrid, Spain. ibs@meditex.es
Objective:
To work out and validate a questionnaire that can be self-filled and has closed answers to describe: 1) the kind of relationship between family doctors and the pharmaceutical industry; 2) the attitude of family doctors towards this relationship, and 3) the conduct of family doctors when faced with concrete offers from the industry.
Design:
Cross-sectional study.
Participants:
Representative sample of family doctors working in primary care teams in Aragon, stratified by province, rural or urban setting and sex.
Main Measurements:
A questionnaire with closed answers that can be self-filled was worked out. It had 55 items on three scales. It was referred to a group of experts in methodology, administration, health law and Bioethics, for an appraisal of its contents, criteria and construction. It was then re-sent to three of them for appraisal of the stability of their scoring.
Results:
The questionnaire was valid in contents, criteria and construction. The results of the re-test sent to a part of the total sample gave information on replies' stability and served as a measurement of the reliability of the questionnaire.
Conclusions:
The questionnaire worked out met established psychometric criteria. The analysis of its results after its distribution to a representative sample of Aragonese family doctors may contribute previously unknown information on their attitudes to the drug industry.
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