DESIGNING OF A MIDWIFERY ATTITUDE QUESTIONNAIRE ABOUT MIDWIFERY TEXTBOOKS

Students' curriculum textbooks play an important role in the formation of their
professional identities and their learning. The study of the attitudes of people associated with a
profession is necessary to create optimization in education and improve the performance of the
individuals involved in it. The purpose of this study is to determine the attitude of midwifery in order to
benefit more from midwifery textbooks in midwifery education. Therefore, the aim of this study is to
design and assess the reliability and validity of midwifery attitude questionnaire towards midwifery
lessons.
Materials & Methods: This is an analytical study. To determine the content validity, the Lavasian table
method was used. Acceptance of phrases based on the score of at least 0.62 for content validity ratio
and 0.79 for content validity index. For reliability, the questionnaire was completed by 30 midwifery
teachers and then reliability was calculated using Cronbach's alpha and acceptance criteria was 0.75.
The calculations were performed using SPSS software version 17.
Results: According to interviews, 17 terms were determined. The three words were deleted because the
content validity ratio was less than 0.62. The average value of the content validity ratio for the remaining
terms was 0.83. Cronbach's alpha coefficient was 0.89.
Conclusion: The midwives' attitude about midwifery textbooks is a lasting instrument and can measure
the attitudes of various midwifery groups such as instructors, students and midwifery graduates to
midwifery lessons.