See the author's detailed response to the review by Nazik Eltayeb Musa Mustafaįoodborne illness is a major, but preventable, public health problem across the world. The distribution of number of different experts whose opinions were taken for the evaluation of the instrument were also included in the revised version of the manuscript according to the comments of the reviewer Finally, as per the suggestion of the reviewer the search strategy has been explained clearly in the methodology section by including the name of the database “PubMed” and specific key words that includes “foodborne illness in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia”.Evaluation of content and face validity has been merged in order to avoid repeated information and also for better understanding of the readers.Sampling strategy has been changed to opportunistic samples as per the suggestion of the reviewer.Similarly, in paragraph 7 and 8 in the introduction part of the manuscript has been merged and the redundancy has been corrected for providing the significance of the role of physicians in food safety.In the paragraph 6, the introduction section of the manuscript has been revised and reorders in order to provide a clear understanding to the readers.The bacterial names such as Bacillus cereus, Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli and Vibrio vulnificus have been amended to italicized style as per the comments of the experts.The word restaurant has been changed to food establishments.It is a sound method for evaluating and measuring levels of foodborne disease-related awareness among physicians in Abha, Saudi Arabia.Īs per the reviewer suggestion here are the changes :
Conclusions: This study introduces a newly developed questionnaire with good reliability and validity values that can assess physician’s awareness of foodborne disease. The awareness questionnaire, as a study instrument, had a favourable acceptance among physicians. In total, 29 items were included in the final set of the questionnaire. Results of different validity and reliability analyses suggest the questionnaire has a high face and content validity as well as good reliability in internal consistency and stability. Of the 31 items designed for assessing the KAP of physicians on foodborne illnesses, three items were excluded after Cronbach’s α analysis. Results: A total of 160 physicians from both public and private primary health care centers were approached to enrol 125 study participants into the survey (response rate 78.13%). After signing the informed consent, the study participants received the questionnaire to evaluate their KAPs on foodborne diseases. Physicians (n=125) were opportunistically recruited from both public and private primary healthcare centers. The questionnaire’s content and validity were confirmed by experts in their corresponding fields. A cross-sectional study was designed in Abha, Saudi Arabia. Methods The questionnaire was developed in three phases: a comprehensive literature review, face and content validity, followed by a reliability test by internal consistency. However, there have been no validated questionnaires specific to the awareness of physicians with foodborne diseases. This study aims to develop and validate a KAP questionnaire for physicians to assess their awareness about the diagnosis and management of foodborne illness. Based on the Knowledge-Attitude-Practice (KAP) model, physician’s awareness is essential for conducting individualized treatments, thus reducing the burden of foodborne illness. Background: The burden of foodborne illness is considered to be high across the world.
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