Construção de uma escala sobre crenças e práticas de prevenção ao uso de álcool e outras drogas (CREPPAD)

Abstract

Introduction: Teachers working in the school are not trained to deal with demands such as preventing the misuse of drugs, they feel unprepared. In this way, it signals the need to assess the beliefs and practices of educators. Thus the objectives of this study were to describe the construction of a range of steps to evaluate the beliefs and facing educators practices to prevent the use of alcohol and other drugs and construct validity evidence of the instrument developed. The dissertation will be presented and organized in two articles. Methodology: In Article 1, a conceptual framework was drawn up, there was theoretical evaluation by experts, judge, focus groups and pilot study. In Article 2, the approaches were used as TCT and TRI to evaluate the psychometric properties of the scale. Results: In the pilot, (Article 1) 136 tutors participated, the mean age was 39.37 years, 86.8% were female. Two components emerged: Beliefs and Practices which explained 41% of the total variance and the Cronbach's alpha was 0.90. Already in Article 2, the sample consisted of 3247 teachers of Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro and Paraná, most participants were female (85.8%) with a mean age of 40.7 (SD = 8, 9 years. From the assessment of local independence and semantic comparison of items, items 8:33 of Beliefs Scale and 9, 29, 31 and 35 of the Practice Range were removed. The final version of the scale was left with 12 items (Beliefs) and 11 (Practice). Conclusion: In conclusion, this study despite the limitations advances in building a scale that assesses two dimensions, with psychometric evidence satisfactory to evaluate the beliefs and practices of educators.