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DEVELOPMENT OF QUESTIONNAIRE TO ASSESS THE KNOWLEDGE OF PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS ABOUT THE VOIDING DYSFUNCTION OF STUDENTS IN WEST AZERBAIJAN PROVINCE

Background & Aims: Evaluation of a teachersʹ knowledge about school childrenʹs voiding dysfunction needs an appropriate tool. This study tries to develop a Farsi questionnaire to fulfill that is needed. Materials & Methods: A standardized questionnaire used in foreign studies was obtained and translated by permission into Farsi. First, its validity was approved. Later, to assess its reliability, two pilot studies were designed using the questionnaire in a test-retest of 20 primary school teachers, 4 weeks apart. Cronbachʹs Alfa was used to calculate the reliability of the tool. Results: In the first test-retest Cronbachʹs Alfa of the questionnaire was calculated as 0.3958. To improve on this figure, questions were suggested for deletion. The final amount would be 0.6037. Instead of omitting the items, we decided that the content should be re-written to make it more comprehensible and the test-retest was repeated with the revised questionnaire. This time, an apposite validity was obtained and as for reliability, the calculated Cronbachʹs Alfa reached a very appropriate amount of 0.8523. Discussion: In the development of measurement tools by using translated questionnaires, paying attention to dissimilarity in linguistic comprehension and cross-cultural variations is essential. In this study, re-writing the original questions improved the final Cronbachʹs Alfa. The questionnaire is now appropriate for using in larger populations in cities or even in a national project.