Journal article
Development and preliminary validation of an ageism scale for dental students
Special Care in Dentistry, Vol.38(1), pp.31-35
01/01/2018
DOI: 10.1111/scd.12259
PMID: 29314164
Abstract
This work presents the preliminary validation of a novel scale assessing ageism attitudes among dental students. A 27-question scale was created based on existing ageism scales. The new ageism scale was applied to 144 dental students. Content validity was achieved by experts' consensus. Questions whose deletion increased the overall [alpha], loading < 0.40, loading on more than one factors, or those unexpectedly grouped in another factor were thoroughly examined. Principal Component Analysis assessed internal structure of the measure. The final ageism scale included four items in a single factor that explained 58.5% of the overall variance with substantially higher reliability than other factors. The Cronbach's [alpha] for this single four-items factor was 0.75. This preliminary analysis of a novel ageism scale for dental professionals pointed to four items achieving high reliability, providing guidance for a future definitive validation study with a larger sample.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Development and preliminary validation of an ageism scale for dental students
- Creators
- Ryan RuckerPatrick B Barlow - University of Iowa, Internal MedicineJennifer Hartshorn - University of Iowa, Preventive and Community DentistryLaura KaufmanBecky SmithAnastassia KossioniLeonardo Marchini - University of Iowa, Preventive and Community Dentistry
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Special Care in Dentistry, Vol.38(1), pp.31-35
- DOI
- 10.1111/scd.12259
- PMID
- 29314164
- NLM abbreviation
- Spec Care Dentist
- ISSN
- 0275-1879
- eISSN
- 1754-4505
- Publisher
- Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/2018
- Description audience
- Academic
- Academic Unit
- Preventive and Community Dentistry; Center for Social Science Innovation; Office of Consultation and Research in Medical Education
- Record Identifier
- 9983765987102771
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