Development and Psychometric Evaluation of a Scale to Measure Health Behaviors of Adolescents

Shin, Yun Hee

doi:10.4040/jkan.2010.40.6.820

J Korean Acad Nurs. 2010 Dec;40(6):820-830. Korean.
Published online Dec 31, 2010.
https://doi.org/10.4040/jkan.2010.40.6.820

Original Article

Development and Psychometric Evaluation of a Scale to Measure Health Behaviors of Adolescents

Yun Hee Shin

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- Professor, Department of Nursing, Wonju College of Medicine, Yonsei University, Wonju, Korea.
Address reprint requests to: Shin, Yun Hee. Department of Nursing, Wonju College of Medicine, Yonsei University, 162 Ilsan-dong, Wonju 220-701, Korea. Tel: 82-33-741-0387, Fax: 82-33-743-9490, Email: yhshin@yonsei.ac.kr

Received June 07, 2010; Accepted December 28, 2010.

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose was to develop a preliminary scale to measure Korean adolescents' health behaviors through a qualitative approach, to evaluate the scale psychometrically, and to develop a final scale.

Methods

Participants were 61 adolescents for qualitative interviews and 1,687 adolescents for the psychometric evaluation. Procedure included content analysis of interviews to identify health behavior categories for Korean adolescents, pre-test to confirm that preliminary scale items were understandable, content validity by an expert panel, development of the web-based computer-assisted survey (CAS), and psychometric analysis to determine reliability and validity of the final scale.

Results

A final scale was developed for both paper-and-pencil and CAS. It consisted of 14 health behaviors (72 items), including stress and mental health (10), sleep habits (5), dietary habits (12), weight control (4), physical activity (4), hygiene habits (5), tobacco use (5), substance use (2), alcohol consumption (4), safety (4), sexual behavior (9), computer use (3), health screening (4), and posture (1).

Conclusion

The scale's strong points are: 1) Two thirds of the final scale items are Likert scale items, enabling calculation of a health behavior score. 2) The scale is appropriate to Korean culture. 3) The scale focuses on concrete health behaviors, not abstract concepts.

Keywords

Adolescent; Health behavior; Instruments; Psychometrics

Tables

Table 1
Construct Validity and Reliability

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Table 2
Content Validity and Test-retest Reliability

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Table 3
Eigenvalue and Cumulative Variance

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Notes

This work was supported by the Korea Research Foundation Grant funded by the Korean Government (MOEHRD, Basic Research Promotion Fund) (KRF-2008-313-E00667).

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