Abstract

Introduction: checking the elderly situation as a cortical that are increasing day by day needs valid and reliable tools appropriate with each country.

Goal: this article is a report of reliability and validity determining of a new self-reported tool and has Likert choices of yes/no that is designed in order to investigate the barriers of elderly access to Health care in Iran.

Material and methodology: in this combination study (quantity and quality) using the ideas of 19 elderly and expert people and by Lawshe criterion and formula 1975 the content validity ratio (CVR), content validity index (CVI), transparency and the wording of each question and total recall of questionnaire were determined, by distributing questionnaire among 41 elderly the reliability and by performing it again among them reliability over time was calculated.

Findings: questionnaire content validity index (CVI) is 0.801;total recall of questionnaire is 0.79 in experts’ idea. Internal reliability of questionnaire is 0.702 and during the time is 0.805 (P value < 0.5).

Discussion and conclusion:considering obtained studies and results, presented questionnaire can be a reliable and valid tool for checking elderly access to health care in Iran.

Key words: Equity in access, access to health care, the elderly, Iran

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