Validity and reproducibility of the Work-related Habits Questionnaire (HQW) to SAMU 192 workers

Abstract

The aim of this study was to develop a questionnaire about work-related habits (WHQ) and to verify its validity and reproducibility. The WHQ steps were: field observation and theoretical review about work-related habits of health workers; description and content; content validity,
and reproducibility. Descriptive statistics (content validity), percent agreement (%C), and the measure agreement Kappa (reproducibility) were used for data analysis. Six experts assessed most part of the instrument as excellent, considering its content valid. Kappa values showed moderate to excellent concordance among the answers (%C>80%) indicating the reproducibility of the WHQ. Despite the limitations of the WHQ, such as absence of questions about alcoholism and imbalance between labor demand and availability of human resources, the practical range of the instrument is in the facility in obtaining information on the profile and on some important aspects of the work routine of health workers, which is useful to evaluate the Occupational Therapy field.