Raina S, Alger E A, Stolman C, Feuerman M, Hill G J
Department of Surgery, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, Newark 07103.
J Cancer Educ. 1986;1(3):153-60. doi: 10.1080/08858198609527827.
A Cancer Attitude And Knowledge Questionnaire was administered to two groups of incoming first year medical students and to one of these groups at the end of their second year. The same questionnaire, except for the questions dealing with cognitive knowledge, was also used to assess the attitudes of practicing oncologists. There was a wide variation in the responses to the attitudinal items in all groups. In view of many inconsistencies in the results, a rigorous analysis of the instrument was carried out. The subscales derived from the Cancer Attitude Survey were found to lack adequate reliability. The only part of the attitudinal test found to be reliable and discriminatory was the semantic differential developed by the authors. It is, therefore, concluded that the currently used techniques are inadequate, and there is a need for a new multidimensional approach to the assessment of attitudes toward cancer.
对两组入学的一年级医学生以及其中一组学生在二年级末进行了癌症态度与知识问卷调查。除了涉及认知知识的问题外，同一问卷还用于评估执业肿瘤学家的态度。所有组对态度项目的回答存在很大差异。鉴于结果存在许多不一致之处，对该工具进行了严格分析。发现从癌症态度调查得出的子量表缺乏足够的可靠性。态度测试中唯一被发现可靠且具有区分性的部分是作者开发的语义差异量表。因此，得出结论，目前使用的技术不充分，需要一种新的多维方法来评估对癌症的态度。
