Reliability of an adult respiratory symptom questionnaire in a community located near a mine dump in South Africa : pilot study
| dc.contributor.author | Nkosi, Vusumuzi | |
| dc.contributor.author | Voyi, K.V.V. (Kuku) | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-10-24T09:19:57Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-10-24T09:19:57Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
| dc.description.abstract | BACKGROUND : Pretesting a questionnaire is an important activity before the start of the main epidemiological study. AIM : The study tested the reliability (internal consistency) of the modified ATS-DLD-78 adult respiratory diseases questionnaire developed by the British Medical Research Council. RESULTS : The questionnaire was found to be reliable and admissible with an overall Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of α = 0.74. CONCLUSION : The questionnaire is a reliable instrument for data collection and can be a useful tool for collecting data in a developing country. The questionnaire will be used to study the association between respiratory and cardiovascular diseases among older people and community’s proximity to mine dumps | en_ZA |
| dc.description.department | School of Health Systems and Public Health (SHSPH) | en_ZA |
| dc.description.librarian | am2016 | en_ZA |
| dc.description.sponsorship | The Mine Health Safety Council of South Africa (SIM 100801) | en_ZA |
| dc.description.uri | http://www.sajei.co.za/index.php/SAJEI | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Nkosi, V & Voyi K 2016, 'Reliability of an adult respiratory symptom questionnaire in a community located near a mine dump in South Africa : pilot study', Southern African Journal of Infectious Diseases, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 103-105. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2312-0053 | |
| dc.identifier.other | 10.1080/23120053.2016.1156318 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/57429 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher | Medpharm Publications, NISC (Pty) Ltd and Cogent, Taylor & Francis Group | en_ZA |
| dc.rights | © 2016 The Author(s) This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 South Africa License. | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Cardiovascular diseases | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Mine dumps | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Pilot study | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Respiratory diseases | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | South Africa (SA) | en_ZA |
| dc.title | Reliability of an adult respiratory symptom questionnaire in a community located near a mine dump in South Africa : pilot study | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Article | en_ZA |