Development Of Scale For KAP Of Women On Their Safety And Management- A Study On Women In Bangalore City

Abstract

Methods and policies that are undertaken prior to the incidence of violence in order to prevent the perpetration or victimisation of women are included in women's safety. The problem can be alleviated by improving understanding and attitudes regarding the causes of domestic or sexual violence, such as adherence to social standards that favour violence, male superiority, and male sexual entitlement. It will be more effective to raise awareness if research is undertaken to determine the women's levels of knowledge, attitude, and practise, since the programme can then be tailored more specifically to fit their needs and interests. To the best of our knowledge, there is no scale for evaluating women's KAP in terms of safety and management in the Indian community. This (WSS -KAP-69 - Women safety scale with KAP-69 questions) is a new questionnaire that assesses women's safety knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours. This scale has good internal consistency reliability, as well as content and construct validity evidence. The scale takes around 20 minutes to administer on average. The rate of missing data at the item level was low. These findings imply that the SE-26 successfully captures a newly found construct, and that it might be beneficial to researchers desiring to test KAP in women, particularly in India. All three domains, Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices, as well as the five subdomains of Violence, Status, Safety, Law, and Role, exhibited strong Cronbach's Alpha and intra-class correlation coefficients, indicating greater test-retest reliability. In this examination, the individual questions were also moderately associated.