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Construction and validation of a questionnaire for the analysis of bioethical conceptions

2012; Conselho Federal de Medicina; Volume: 20; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

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Paloma R. Silva, Elaine Sandra Nicolini Nabuco de Araújo, Ana Maria de Andrade Caldeira,

Ethics in Business and Education

In this paper we describe the stages of a quantitative questionnaire development that allows the investigation of conceptions about bioethical values inherent to the scientific activity. This questionnaire was statistically and semantically validated and developed according to the Likert scale. The relevance of this instrument is given by the fact that, unlike what happens in European countries, quantitative research in Brazil has little educational traditions. Therefore, this work is intended to subsidize the use of quantitative methods in Education research that lack such tools.