Khami Mohammad Reza, Baghizadeh Fini Maryam, Kim Sohee, Razeghi Samaneh, Sadighpour Leyla, Dehghani Tafti Salman
Research Center for Caries Prevention, Dentistry Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Research, Evaluation, Measurement, & Statistic Program, College of Education, Health and Aviation, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA.
Front Dent. 2023 Jun 20;20:21. doi: 10.18502/fid.v20i21.12973. eCollection 2023.
Professionalism is essential to a strong and trusted patient-doctor relationship, which is believed to potentially enhance patient compliance and treatment outcomes. The purpose of our study was to develop and conduct a psychometric analysis of an assessment tool to evaluate the professional behavior of dental students. The study was performed in the School of Dentistry, Tehran University of Medical Sciences. After providing a pool of various criteria to assess professionalism, an expert panel prepared the primary version of the tool. The tool was set in a questionnaire frame to explore the significance level and evaluation feasibility of each criterion. The questionnaire was completed by tutors of the "Medical Ethics" course (n=6). After necessary revisions, face and content validity were evaluated by giving the checklist to eight experienced dental educators to determine the relevance, clarity, and simplicity of the questions. In the second stage, the final checklist (37 items) was given to dental educators to evaluate twenty students. To assess the reliability of this checklist, at least two professors evaluated each student, and weighted-κ was calculated. Minor revisions were made based on the received feedback. According to our data, the total validity of the tool (S-CVI) was 100%. For all items except one, the weighted-κ coefficient was ≥ 0.5, indicating sufficient reliability for these items. Despite the limitations of the present study, the designed tool to evaluate professionalism among dental students in different clinical departments seems to be both valid and reliable.
专业素养对于建立牢固且值得信赖的医患关系至关重要，人们认为这种关系可能会提高患者的依从性和治疗效果。我们研究的目的是开发并进行一项心理测量分析，以评估一种用于评价牙科学生专业行为的评估工具。该研究在德黑兰医科大学牙科学院进行。在提供了一系列评估专业素养的标准后，一个专家小组编制了该工具的初始版本。该工具采用问卷形式，以探究每个标准的显著性水平和评估可行性。问卷由“医学伦理学”课程的教师（n = 6）完成。经过必要的修订后，通过将清单分发给八位经验丰富的牙科教育工作者来评估表面效度和内容效度，以确定问题的相关性、清晰度和简易性。在第二阶段，将最终清单（37项）分发给牙科教育工作者，让他们对20名学生进行评估。为了评估这份清单的信度，至少有两位教授对每位学生进行评估，并计算加权κ值。根据收到的反馈进行了细微修订。根据我们的数据，该工具的总效度（S-CVI）为100%。除一项外，所有项目的加权κ系数均≥0.5，表明这些项目具有足够的信度。尽管本研究存在局限性，但所设计的用于评估不同临床科室牙科学生专业素养的工具似乎既有效又可靠。
