INTRODUCTION: Many @entity1 treated with lipid-lowering medications in clinical practice do not achieve targeted National @entity165 Education Program (NCEP) goals for low-density lipoprotein @entity165 (LDL-C), despite the proven efficacy of these medications. Understanding physician attitudes and beliefs about treating @entity1 to goal may be useful in improving @entity1 care and ensuring that all @entity1 receive the benefits of treatments shown to be optimal in clinical trials. OBJECTIVE: To develop a theoretically based, and statistically reliable and valid survey instrument for measuring the attitudes and beliefs of physicians toward @entity407 and its treatment, including treatment of @entity1 to goal. To determine whether the attitudes measured were associated with physician intentions to treat @entity1 to LDL-C goal. METHODS: We assessed the reliability of the instrument through an examination of the internal consistency and factor structure of the constructs. Validity was assessed through zero-order correlations among the constructs and the relationship between the constructs and an intent to treat to goal case study. RESULTS: Internal consistency scores for the 8 constructs ranged from 0.48 to 0.75. Factor loadings indicated that the individual items belonged to their respective constructs, as hypothesized. The predictive validity of the instrument was demonstrated by significant relationships between 5 of the 8 attitudinal constructs and an intent to treat to goal case study. CONCLUSIONS: The @entity407 physician survey is the first validated instrument covering a broad set of attitudes about the treatment of @entity407 that are both theoretically and empirically linked to physician intent to treat to NCEP LDL-C goal.

Development and validation of the XXXX ( @entity407 ) survey for physicians.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['patients', 'patient'] @entity407 :: ('MESH:D006949', 'Disease') :: ['hyperlipidemia', 'HABIT'] @entity165 :: ('MESH:D002784', 'Chemical') :: ['Cholesterol', 'cholesterol']
@entity407 :: (MESH:D006949,Disease) :: ['hyperlipidemia: attitudes and beliefs in treatment']
