Instrument validation on risk factors that influence the overweight and obesity of workers in district 09d06 in the period january - may 2020

Abstract

Introduction: primary health care in Ecuador does not have validated research instruments on risk factors that influence overweight and obesity in workers. Objective: to validate, through expert judgment and Cronbach's coefficient, the instrument to measure workers' overweight. Methodology: The instrument is made up of demographic data and a total of 20 items. For the analysis of the variables, an expert judgment matrix was made to calculate the validity, relevance and coherence. The instrument was applied to the workers of District 09D06. The validation was by expert judgments and was applied with a sample of 15 participants as a pilot test. Descriptive statistics were calculated for the analysis and Cronbach's alpha was used to obtain reliability. Results: the expert judgment validation obtains a score of 94 and a Cronbach's Alpha coefficient of 0.897. Conclusions: The developed instrument presented a very high concordance between the scores obtained from the experts, indicating a very reliable validity on the clarity of the wording and a high reliability in the coefficient.