Development and Standardization of Questionnaire for Measurement of Knowledge about Polio

The study aims to focus on the construction of knowledge scale about polio. Polio, is still a threat to many countries including India. Though combat battle to win over polio is almost done, but few countries are still in danger zone. India received its polio free certificate in the year 2012. But, this country has two neighbor countries (Pakistan, Afganistan) which still suffering from this mass disease. India, has a huge migrating problem, still is in danger-zone that is why arranges Oral Polio Vaccination camp in every year. Besides, statistically divided into many socio-economic layers, India faces so many problems, including ignorance, superstitions, illiteracy, poverty and lack of sense and knowledge regarding health. So it is necessary to measure what is the level of knowledge about polio of the people here. The researcher chose Murshidabad district, West Bengal as her area of research. In this study the questionnaire was constructed for the collection of data. A self-made questionnaire regarding knowledge scale was applied as an appropriate tool for collecting data in order to achieve the set of objectives of this study. It is a 3-point Likert Scale used to construct the questionnaire. There are 52 items in the questionnaire-26 of them are favourable and rests of them are unfavourable statements. The test-retest co-efficient of this scale was determined as 0.96 which is significant.