Table 2.
Questionnaire items assessing healthcare professionals’ social cognitions for discussing leisure-time physical activity with their patients
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Theory of planned behaviour construct (# items) |
Response scale | Internal reliability score (α) or correlation (r) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Items included in scale | |||
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Attitudes (5 items) |
|
αs ≥0.81 |
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| Instrumental attitudes |
1 = Strongly disagree, |
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| 1. Attending this CMCL presentation will help me discuss physical activity and parasport to my patients with a physical disability. |
7 = Strongly agree |
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| Affective attitudes |
Anchors represent extremes (1/7) on 7-point Likert scale |
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| 2. Complete the statement, ‘Discussing physical activity and parasport to my patients with a physical disability would be__________’. | |||
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a. Harmful/beneficial |
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b. Worthless/valuable |
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c. Difficult/easy |
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d. Unpleasant/pleasant |
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Subjective norms (1 item) |
1 = Strongly disagree, |
N/A |
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| 1. Other health care professionals that I work with think I should discuss physical activity and parasport with my patients with a physical disability. |
7 = Strongly agree |
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Perceived behavioural control (2 items) |
1 = Not at all confident, |
rs ≥0.44 |
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| If you were really motivated and had all the resources that you needed, how confident are you in your ability to… |
7 = Completely confident |
ps ≤0.03 |
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| 1. …discuss physical activity and parasport with your patients with a physical disability? | |||
| 2. …persuade your patients with a physical disability to participate in physical activity and parasport? | |||
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Intentions (3 items) |
1 = Strongly disagree, |
αs ≥0.82 | |
| 1. In the next four weeks, I intend to seek out additional information about physical activity and parasport for my patients/clients with a physical disability. |
7 = Strongly agree | ||
| 2. In the next four weeks, I intend to seek out additional information to use to persuade my patients with a physical disability to engage in physical activity and parasport. | |||
| 3. In the next four weeks, I intend to persuade my patients with a physical disability to engage in physical activity and parasport. | |||
Note. CMCL: ‘Changing Minds, Changing Lives.’ The column indicating scale internal reliability (Cronbach alpha) scores for the items on the scale and Pearson correlations between the items on the scale represent the lowest value across the four time points (pre-CMCL, post-CMCL, 1-month follow-up, 6-month follow-up). All internal reliability scores were acceptable.