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Health protective behavior scale: Development and psychometric evaluation.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

A healthy lifestyle includes health protective and health promoting behaviors. Health promoting lifestyle profiles have been developed, but measures of health protective behavior are still lacking. This study sought to develop a health protecting behavior scale.

Methods

An initial item pool for the Health Protective Behavior Scale (HPBS) was generated based on read and referred literature and a single-item open-ended survey. An expert group screened this initial item pool using an item-level content validity index. Pilot testing was conducted. The degree of variation, the response rate, the item-total correlation coefficient, and the factor loading in factor analysis and item analysis were used to screen items using data of pilot testing. 454 subjects were recruited evaluate the psychometric properties of the HPBS. Analyses included internal consistency, test-retest reliability, factor analysis, parallel analysis, correlation analysis and criterion validity analysis.

Results

The final iteration of the HPBS was developed with 32 items and five dimensions: interpersonal support, general behavior, self-knowledge, nutrition behavior and health care. Cronbach's alpha coefficient, and test-retest reliability were 0.89 and 0.89 respectively. Correlation coefficients of the five dimensions ranged from 0.28 to 0.55. The Spearman correlation coefficient between the total scores on the WHOQOL-BREF and on the HPBS was 0.34.

Conclusions

HPBS has sufficient validity and reliability to measure health protective behaviors in adults.

SUBMITTER: Ping W

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5757924 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Health protective behavior scale: Development and psychometric evaluation.

Ping Weiwei W Cao Wenjun W Tan Hongzhuan H Guo Chongzheng C Dou Zhiyong Z Yang Jianzhou J

PloS one 20180108 1

<h4>Objective</h4>A healthy lifestyle includes health protective and health promoting behaviors. Health promoting lifestyle profiles have been developed, but measures of health protective behavior are still lacking. This study sought to develop a health protecting behavior scale.<h4>Methods</h4>An initial item pool for the Health Protective Behavior Scale (HPBS) was generated based on read and referred literature and a single-item open-ended survey. An expert group screened this initial item poo ...[more]

PMID: 29309423

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Health protective behavior scale: Development and psychometric evaluation.

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