Department of Agricultural Extension and Education, Tarbiat Modares University , Tehran, Iran.
Department of Health sciences, Milan university , Milan, Italy.
J Agromedicine. 2020 Jul;25(3):279-285. doi: 10.1080/1059924X.2019.1674227. Epub 2019 Oct 9.
: Agriculture is one of the most dangerous industries throughout the world, and its risk level is dictated by several determinants whose real weights are often unknown. : The present work aims to develop psychometric properties of farmers' occupational health behavior questionnaire for Iranian farmers. : In this qualitative-quantitative study, the items of the instrument were derived from the qualitative phase. Face validity, content validity, reliability, and consistency methods were applied. Construct validity was estimated by the exploratory factor analysis. : Eleven factors with factor loads of >0.501 were extracted as the main factors. They altogether captured about 58.97% of the variance of factors affecting farmers' occupational health behavior. The reliability of the instrument was confirmed as its Cronbach's alpha was in the range of 0.72-0.93. : Given the complicated nature of occupational health behaviors among farmers, it is imperative to measure the factors influencing these behaviors precisely. Therefore, the development of a proper instrument can be very crucial in identifying influential factors. The findings showed that the developed instrument was optimally reliable and valid.
农业是全球最危险的行业之一，其风险水平由几个决定因素决定，而这些决定因素的实际权重往往不为人知。本研究旨在为伊朗农民开发农民职业健康行为问卷的心理计量学特性。在这项定性-定量研究中，工具的项目来源于定性阶段。采用了表面效度、内容效度、信度和一致性方法。通过探索性因素分析估计了构念效度。提取了 11 个因子负荷>0.501 的因子作为主要因子。它们总共捕获了约 58.97%影响农民职业健康行为的因素的方差。该工具的可靠性得到了确认，其克朗巴赫α系数在 0.72-0.93 之间。鉴于农民职业健康行为的复杂性，精确测量影响这些行为的因素至关重要。因此，开发合适的工具对于确定影响因素非常关键。研究结果表明，所开发的工具具有最佳的可靠性和有效性。
