Imperial College London
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DrMichaelSoljak

Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health

Honorary Clinical Research Fellow
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 0772m.soljak Website

 
 
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Ms Dorothea Cockerell +44 (0)20 7594 3368

 
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323Reynolds BuildingCharing Cross Campus

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Publications

Citation

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@article{Woringer:2017:10.1136/bmjopen-2016-014413,
author = {Woringer, M and Jones, Nielsen J and Zibarras, L and Evason, J and Kassianos, AP and Harris, M and Majeed, A and Soljak, M},
doi = {10.1136/bmjopen-2016-014413},
journal = {BMJ Open},
title = {Development of a questionnaire to evaluate patients’ awareness of cardiovascular disease risk in England’s National Health Service Health Check preventive cardiovascular programme},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-014413},
volume = {7},
year = {2017}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - BackgroundThe National Health Service (NHS) Health Check is a CVD risk assessment and management programme in England aiming to increase CVD risk awareness among people at increased risk of CVD. There is no tool to assess the effectiveness of the programme in communicating CVD risk to patients. AimsThe aim of this paper was to develop a questionnaire examining patients’ CVD risk awareness for use in health service research evaluations of the NHS Health Check programme. MethodsWe developed an 85 item questionnaire to determine patients’ views of their risk of CVD. The questionnaire was based on a review of the relevant literature. After review by an expert panel and focus group discussion, 22 items were dropped and 2 new items were added. The resulting 65 item questionnaire with satisfactory content validity (content validity indices >=0.80) and face validity was tested on 110 NHS Health Check attendees in primary care in a cross sectional study between May 21 and July 28, 2014. ResultsFollowing analyses of data, we reduced the questionnaire from 65 to 26 items. The 26 item questionnaire constitutes 4 scales: Knowledge of CVD Risk and Prevention, Perceived Risk of Heart Attack/Stroke, Perceived Benefits and Intention to Change Behaviour and Healthy Eating Intentions. Perceived Risk (Cronbach’s α = 0.85) and Perceived Benefits and Intention to Change Behaviour (Cronbach’s α = 0.82) have satisfactory reliability (Cronbach’s α >=0.70). Healthy Eating Intentions (Cronbach’s α = 0.56) is below minimum threshold for reliability but acceptable for a three item scale. ConclusionsThe resulting questionnaire, with satisfactory reliability and validity, may be used in assessing patients’ awareness of CVD risk among NHS Health Check attendees.
AU  - Woringer,M
AU  - Jones,Nielsen J
AU  - Zibarras,L
AU  - Evason,J
AU  - Kassianos,AP
AU  - Harris,M
AU  - Majeed,A
AU  - Soljak,M
DO  - 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-014413
PY  - 2017///
SN  - 2044-6055
TI  - Development of a questionnaire to evaluate patients’ awareness of cardiovascular disease risk in England’s National Health Service Health Check preventive cardiovascular programme
T2  - BMJ Open
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-014413
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/50484
VL  - 7
ER  -
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