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. 2021 Sep;7(5):1558-1563.
doi: 10.1002/vms3.547. Epub 2021 Jun 16.

Development and validation of a cognitive, affective and behaviour questionnaire on pet-associated zoonotic diseases (CAB-ZDQ)

Teresa Sui Mien Yong  1 , Albeny Joslyn Panting  1 , Nurashma Juatan  1 , Komathi Perialathan  1 , Masitah Ahmad  1 , Nor Haryati Ahmad Sanusi  1 , Latiffah Hassan  2 , Rohani Jahis  3 , Norita Shamsudin  3 , Siew Lee Yap  3 , Nur Izzati Norshamsul  1 , Maryam Pisol  1 , Mohammad Zabri Johari  1
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Development and validation of a cognitive, affective and behaviour questionnaire on pet-associated zoonotic diseases (CAB-ZDQ)

Teresa Sui Mien Yong et al. Vet Med Sci. 2021 Sep.

Abstract

Background: Zoonoses among household pets are recognized as disease and infections transmitted between animals and humans. World Health Organization-estimated zoonotic diseases have contributed about one billion cases of illness and millions of mortalities every year. Despite the emerging and re-emerging zoonotic disease, most pet owners are unaware of the risks posed by their pets. As there are a lack of studies assessing infections at home, this study aimed to develop and validate a cognitive, affective and behaviour questionnaire (CAB-ZDQ) to assess household pets' zoonotic diseases.

Methods: This paper covers detailed explanation on the various developmental and validation process stages of the CAB zoonotic disease questionnaire development. The development phase comprised thorough literature search, focus group discussion, expert panel assessment and review. The validation process included pre-test and pilot testing, data analysis of results, analysis of internal consistency and the development of the final version of the questionnaire. Participants selected represented main ethnicities, gender, levels of education and population type (urban/rural) in the Klang Valley area.

Results: The items in the questionnaire has undergone various changes in structurally and linguistically. The final refined CAB questionnaire consists of 14 items cognitive (no items removed at pilot phase), nine items affective (one item removed at pilot phase) and five items behaviour (no items removed from pre-test phase), respectively. Reliability analysis revealed Cronbach's alpha values were 0.700 (cognitive) and 0.606 (affective) which indicated good internal consistency after item reduction.

Conclusions: The developed questionnaire has proved its feasibility in assessing the Malaysian general population cognitive, affective and behavior regarding the household pets' zoonotic diseases.

Keywords: affective; behaviour; cognitive; development; household pets; questionnaire; validation; zoonoses; zoonotic disease.

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Conflict of interest statement

All authors have declared no conflict of interests or competing interests upon submission of this manuscript

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