In developing a questionnaire for KAP studies on diabetes in a community setting, what are the specific open/close ended questions that could be asked to ascertain their KAP?
Hi, Victor - I would look at pre-existing questionnaires that have been used in a similar community setting first to see which questions might be useful for your ultimate goal. It is important to decide what your objectives are for conducting the survey in the first place... improve services? identify barriers to self care? determine local views of why, how, diabetes occurs?
I like to ask some of the community stakeholders their opinions as part of formative research before I develop or adapt a questionnaire. Say for example you wanted to know what were the local community's views on why people get diabetes - you could do semi-structured ethnographic interviews with a few medical professionals, local religious leaders, a few respected community leaders, several people of different ages with and w/out diabetes. We did a study like this several years ago with a Native American community and found that many individuals felt that it was their fate to get diabetes. Since some felt this their lot in life, they were not that interested in preventive care or making lifestyle changes.
After collecting these interviews and of course doing a thorough literature search for similar studies, you can begin shaping a questionnaire. This all takes some time, but doing the formative work up front will give you better results and guide you to ask the right questions that are important to the priority community.
Donna
I have just conducted KAP on breast cancer among female house hold heads and would be happy to help you on the general KAP questionnaire issues. You may write me through [email protected].
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