Messenger students’ engagement scale

Community perspectives on school‐based malaria education in Ethiopia

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ID12287294
AuthorsYohannes Kebede (0000-0003-2920-5862, corresponding author), Zewdie Birhanu Koricha (0000-0003-3142-5266, Department of Health, Behavior, and Society Jimma University Jimma Ethiopia, corresponding author), Guda Alemayehu (0000-0002-3947-4073, President’s Malaria Initiative United States Agency for International Development Addis Ababa Ethiopia), Lakew Abebe (0000-0002-0664-7396, Department of Health, Behavior, and Society Jimma University Jimma Ethiopia), Morankar Sudhakar (0000-0002-1895-5812, Department of Health, Behavior, and Society Jimma University Jimma Ethiopia), Zewdie Birhanu (0000-0002-5465-1509, Department of Health, Behavior, and Society Jimma University Jimma Ethiopia)
Year2020
Volume29
Issue5
Pages1391-1400
Publication date2020-10-17
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHealth & Social Care in the Community (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0966-0410 • E-ISSN: 1365-2524
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/hsc.13193
PMID33068059
OpenAlexW3092817451
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited17

A two-year school-based malaria education intervention was developed to engage students as implementers in malaria prevention and control in the Oromia region, Ethiopia. The current study aimed to validate messenger students' engagement scale (MSES) in malaria education. The scale development process was done stepwise. Multiple behavioural theories were examined to derive possible domains of engagement. Next, a pool of items was developed by linking the domains with malaria target behaviours. The items critically reviewed, pretested and refined for clarity and appropriateness. A cross-sectional survey of 451 sample households with school-going children was conducted in five districts of the Jimma-Zone in March-2019. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA)/principal component analysis (PCA) was executed to evaluate the construct validity of the scale. Rotated factor loading coefficients of ≥0.4 were retained. Items loaded on multiple factors were retained on the factor with a higher loading score. Cronbach's alpha of 0.7 was used as the cutoff point for reliability. Discriminative validity was declared based on Pearson correlation (between the extracted factors) coefficients that were moderate (r < 0.7), and less than the respective variance explained (VE) by each factor. The validity of convergence of domains with the overall MSES assessed (0.4 < r < 0.9). Logistic regression for key malaria preventive practices was conducted to assess predictive validity. The study explored a 24-item MSES in six domains of malaria education: reminding, supporting, monitoring, messenger credibility, role modelling and norm setting. The domains explained 67.82% variance of MSES, with a reliability of 93.3%. The factors were convergent with the overall scale (r = 0.764-0.834). Most factors were discriminative, with moderate correlation to each other. Adjusted odds ratios showed engaging credible students in reminding malaria preventive messages and modelling practices predicted exposure to message, insecticide-treated net (ITN) utilisation and cleaning surrounding. The current MSES is reliable, valid and predictive of malaria preventive practices

CLARITY · Construct validity · Cronbach's alpha · Exploratory factor analysis · Geography · Malaria · Medical education · Psychological intervention · Psychometrics · Scale (ratio · Applied Psychology · Clinical Psychology · Global Maternal and Child Health · Malaria Research and Control · Medicine · Mosquito-borne diseases and control · Psychology · Social Psychology

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