This work mentions the process of developing an instrument that was validated to measure the motivation and attitudes of students in the undergraduate course of Legal and Forensic Dentistry that is taught in the Professional School of Dentistry. The instrument was applied in an experimental group of 46 students. The instrument has two parts, the first is a motivation test and the second part an attitude test both under the Likert mode. The instrument was adjusted by expert judgment and by contrasting reliability and consistency of Cronbach's alpha, reaching a value of 0.8. With this analysis, it is confirmed that the questionnaire is congruent and tests its consistencies for internal reliability, to be applied and adapted to other subjects.

This work mentions the process of developing an instrument that was validated to measure the motivation and attitudes of students in the undergraduate course of Legal and Forensic Dentistry that is taught in the Professional School of Dentistry. The instrument was applied in an experimental group of 46 students. The instrument has two parts, the first is a motivation test and the second part an attitude test both under the Likert mode. The instrument was adjusted by expert judgment and by contrasting reliability and consistency of Cronbach's alpha, reaching a value of 0.8. With this analysis, it is confirmed that the questionnaire is congruent and tests its consistencies for internal reliability, to be applied and adapted to other subjects.

This work mentions the process of developing an instrument that was validated to measure the motivation and attitudes of students in the undergraduate course of Legal and Forensic Dentistry that is taught in the Professional School of Dentistry. The instrument was applied in an experimental group of 46 students. The instrument has two parts, the first is a motivation test and the second part an attitude test both under the Likert mode. The instrument was adjusted by expert judgment and by contrasting reliability and consistency of Cronbach's alpha, reaching a value of 0.8. With this analysis, it is confirmed that the questionnaire is congruent and tests its consistencies for internal reliability, to be applied and adapted to other subjects.

Objetivo: Determinar si los conocimientos y actitudes por la COVID-19 de los pobladores de Locumba están asociados con las medidas de prevención por dicha enfermedad. Método: La población de estudio estuvo constituida por todos los residentes de Locumba mayores de edad. Se utilizó un muestreo simple aleatorio para muestras finitas (n = 321). Se utilizaron dos encuestas que evaluaron el conocimiento y la actitud. Resultados: En total, 245 de los pobladores, que representan el 76.56 % de la muestra total, cumplen con las condiciones para tener una categoría de “Conoce”; es decir, respondieron correctamente como mínimo cinco preguntas correctas a más. El 72.81 % de los pobladores residentes de Locumba presentan actitudes favorables hacia las medidas de prevención de la COVID-19, un 27.19 % presentó actitudes medianamente favorables y no se encontró ningún poblador con actitu...