%0 Journal Article
%T Confirmatory factor analysis of the Questionnaire on the Health Staff¡¯s Perceptions Regarding Doutores da Alegria¡¯s Interventions
%A Daniel Brand£¿o
%A Diana Aguiar Vieira
%A Morgana Masetti
%A Susana Caires
%J Journal of Health Psychology
%@ 1461-7277
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1359105316650274
%X A confirmatory analysis was performed to validate the Questionnaire on the Health Staff¡¯s Perceptions Regarding Doutores da Alegria¡¯s Intervention, a 40-item instrument designed to assess pediatric staff¡¯s perceptions regarding the effects of Doutores da Alegria, a Brazilian hospital clowning professional organization. Eight dimensions were evaluated: the permanence of Doutores da Alegria¡¯s interventions; Doutores da Alegria¡¯s intrapersonal and interpersonal effects on their relation to health staff; themselves; staff¨Cchildren; and staff¨Cfamily relationships; as well as their effect on staff¡¯s cultural development; children¡¯s relation to their own disease; and families¡¯ attitude regarding their child¡¯s condition. In all, 567 health professionals from 13 Brazilian hospitals participated. The instrument¡¯s good psychometric features are acknowledged
%K benefit finding
%K clown intervention
%K confirmatory factor analysis
%K humor
%K perception
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1359105316650274