I would like to identify attitudes towards the use of prescription and over-the-counter medications among patients, health care professionals and medical students. The questionnaire measuring trust in medication, the value in the therapy as well as danger... Could you please suggest any?
There are quite some methodological problems in measuring attitudes. It appeared that great differences existed between attitudes and behaviour. Depending on your goal you may select the questions. In daily simple strait-forward questions can help.
Robert Horne , John Weinman & Maittew Hankins (1999): The beliefs about medicines questionnaire: The development and evaluation of a new method for assessing the cognitive representation of medication, Psychology & Health, 14:1, 1-24
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Dear Jack,
Thank you for your answer and for highlighting the difference between attitudes and behaviour - as they may not overlap. Are there any tools to measure the tendency to not behave according to the attitudes?
You mau search google, what you probably have done already, for an overview of measuring attitudes. In addition it may be worthwile to study books on compliance.f.e. Sackett & Haynes1976 Compliance with therapeutic regimens. Hopkins Univ. Press or Cramer & Spilker 1991 Methods for assessing and imroving patient compliance in clinical trials. NY, Raven Press.
Dear Michal,
Semantic Differential Scales have been used in attitude measurement. Regarding attitiudes on suicide you may read JennerJA & Niesing J (2000). The construction of a new suicide-attitude questionnaire. Acta Psychiatr Scand 101:1-8. Similarly we have constructed the WEDAS on mesasuring attitudes on organ donation and the TIDAS on tissue donation.
Dear Michael,
I am quite impressed to see your interest in attitude towards medication,I am interested in that issue especially medication for clients with psychiatric conditions .I teach Substance Abuse Counselling Course.we may collaborate in future.My hands are full now.
I have come across two in the past ,they are old but you may get ideas from them,here they are:
1.Barbara R. & Margaret W. L (1973), A Scale for the Measurement of Attitudes Toward Drugs,
International Journal of the Addictions, Volume 8, 1973 - Issue 5.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3109/10826087309071071
2. Rolfe IE1, Pearson SA. (1986),A scale to measure attitudes toward community medicine.
Aust N Z J Public Health. 1996 Aug;20(4):433-5.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8908771
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You may want to google to get more.
As stated above, pursuing a line of inquiry along the lines of attitude/behavior may permit you to closely measures the intended relationship. I am doubtful that a thorough analysis can be done without a mixed methods approach. Behavior, obviously, is quantifiable (compliance to medication usage, etc.) wherein novel qualitative research may need to be conducted on sample attitudes.
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