Confirmatory factor analysis of the Questionnaire on the Health Staff's Perceptions Regarding Doutores da Alegria's Interventions.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Masetti, Morgana; Caires, Susana; Brandão, Daniel; Vieira, Diana Aguiar
- Source
- Journal of Health Psychology. Feb2019, Vol. 24 Issue 2, p166-174. 9p.
- Subject
- *ATTITUDE (Psychology)
*CHILD behavior
*FACTOR analysis
*INTERPROFESSIONAL relations
*LAUGHTER
*MEDICAL personnel
*PATIENT-professional relations
*MIND & body therapies
*PEDIATRICS
*PROFESSIONAL associations
*PSYCHOMETRICS
*QUESTIONNAIRES
*THERAPEUTICS
*WIT & humor
*PEER relations
*RESEARCH methodology evaluation
*PATIENTS' families
*FAMILY attitudes
- Language
- ISSN
- 1359-1053
A confirmatory analysis was performed to validate the Questionnaire on the Health Staff's Perceptions Regarding Doutores da Alegria's Intervention, a 40-item instrument designed to assess pediatric staff's perceptions regarding the effects of Doutores da Alegria, a Brazilian hospital clowning professional organization. Eight dimensions were evaluated: the permanence of Doutores da Alegria's interventions; Doutores da Alegria's intrapersonal and interpersonal effects on their relation to health staff; themselves; staff–children; and staff–family relationships; as well as their effect on staff's cultural development; children's relation to their own disease; and families' attitude regarding their child's condition. In all, 567 health professionals from 13 Brazilian hospitals participated. The instrument's good psychometric features are acknowledged. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]