Questionnaire for the identification of Occupational Health information

Abstract

Introduction: The interest for the information and knowledge is every time bigger increasing the social demand of orientation to confront the new and complexes global problems and the interest toward its management and solution. The best strategy to achieve the diffusion and impact of the professional and scientist activity is to publish works and informative contents and to share them through the open science. Intend an exploratory investigation related with the Occupational Health using a questionnaire for the identification of the general information existent on this thematic. Objective: Validation of the questionnaire for the general identification about Occupational Health. Method: A preliminary version of the questionnaire was elaborated, divided in sections according to the informative interests demanded by the investigation. It was undergone to the judgment of nine experts using the properties of Moriyama to validate for items and the calculation of concordance and analysis of content validity for the general validation. Results: All the items reached very superior values those accepted when applying the properties of Moriyama and in the validity of their contents in each dimension and in the total values. In the general valuation of the test was observed the majority agreement of the experts with the approaches to measure. The half agreement of the experts showed little deviation and in six of the seven variables they had good level of acceptance, because only in the variable Opportunity the consent level was lightly inferior to the accepted. Conclusions: An instrument was obtained and validated by means of the application of three methodologies