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- Title
Development and validation of women's environmental health scales in Korea: severity, susceptibility, response efficacy, self-efficacy, benefit, barrier, personal health behavior, and community health behavior scales.
- Authors
Hee Kyung Kim; Hyun Kyoung Kim
- Abstract
Purpose: This study aimed to develop the following scales on women's environmental health and to examine their validity and reliability: severity, susceptibility, response efficacy, self-efficacy, benefit, barrier, personal health behavior, and community health behavior scales. Methods: The item pool was generated based on related scales, a wide literature review, and indepth interviews on women's environmental health according to the revised Rogers' protection motivation theory model. Content validity was verified by three nursing professionals. Exploratory factor analysis, convergent validity, and internal consistency reliability were examined. Results: The scales included 10 items on severity, 11 on susceptibility, 10 on response efficacy, 14 on self-efficacy, 8 on benefits, 10 on barriers, 17 on personal health behavior, and 16 on community health behavior. Convergent validity with the environmental behavior scale for female adolescents was supported. The Cronbach's α values for internal consistency were good for all scales: severity, . 84; susceptibility, .92; response efficacy, .88; self-efficacy, .90; benefits, .91; barriers, .85; personal health behavior, .90; and community health behavior, .91. Conclusion: The evaluation of the psychometric properties shows that these scales are valid and reliable measures of women's environmental health awareness and behaviors. These scales may be helpful for assessing women's environmental health behaviors, thereby contributing to efforts to promote environmental health.
- Subjects
SOUTH Korea; EXPERIMENTAL design; RESEARCH evaluation; META-analysis; CONFIDENCE intervals; RESEARCH methodology; RESEARCH methodology evaluation; PSYCHOLOGICAL vulnerability; INTERVIEWING; FEAR; PUBLIC health; ENVIRONMENTAL health; PSYCHOMETRICS; HEALTH literacy; SELF-efficacy; HEALTH behavior; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; RESEARCH funding; NURSES; EXPERTISE; SCALE analysis (Psychology); CHI-squared test; FACTOR analysis; ACCESS to information; STATISTICAL correlation; DATA analysis software; WOMEN'S health; EVALUATION
- Publication
Korean Journal of Women Health Nursing, 2021, Vol 27, Issue 2, p153
- ISSN
1225-9543
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4069/kjwhn.2021.06.21