Development and Validation of a New Tool to Assess Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Mind Mapping Among Physiotherapy Academicians

Context: Mind mapping is an active teaching-learning technique that stimulates critical thinking. Physiotherapy academicians' views and perceptions about mind mapping are not extensively researched. Knowledge, Attitude and Practice (KAP) questionnaire would prove to be a useful tool to identify their baseline knowledge, attitude and behaviour in relation to mind mapping. This study attempts to bridge the research gap on a KAP questionnaire specic to mind mapping for Physiotherapy academicians. Aim: The present study aims to formulate and corroborate a KAP questionnaire about mind mapping among Physiotherapy academicians. Settings And Design: In this psychometric study, 495 Physiotherapy academicians from Physiotherapy institutions afliated to State, Deemed and Private Universities across India participated between September 2022 to April 2023. Methods: A KAP questionnaire was formulated by following a standardised methodology comprising seeking of expert opinions, consultation with senior faculty, and a review of existing literature. The questionnaire was validated through a cross-sectional survey of 495 Physiotherapy academicians selected by convenience sampling. Validity was determined by face and content validity methods while Reliability was examined by the internal consistency method. Exploratory factor analysis was used to examine the construct validity. Results: Totally, 49 items categorised under Knowledge (12 items), Attitude (27 items), and Practice (10 items) constituted the KAP questionnaire. Independent Cronbach's Alpha was 0.83, 0.98 and 0.95 for the KAP domains, indicating strong internal consistency. The Content Validity Ratio and Content Validity Index were > 0.80, signifying acceptable content validity, while the Intraclass Correlation Coefcient of 0.863 suggested good reliability of the questionnaire. Item factor loadings were reported to be > 0.4 with the extraction of eighteen common factors. Conclusion: The developed questionnaire exhibited good validity and reliability, providing a valuable tool to comprehend Physiotherapy teachers' KAP regarding mind mapping. This questionnaire can be used to analyse changes in learning and behaviour, following faculty training in mind mapping.