Ha Na Jeong, Kyoung-Eun Lee, Hee Jung Kim, Gi Won Choi, Sun Ju Chang
Silent struggles to self-manage high blood pressure among deaf sign language users: a qualitative study
European journal of cardiovascular nursing
considering importance health behaviors health outcomes necessary assess health behaviors precisely study aimed develop validate geriatrics health behavior questionnaire among iranian older adults crosssectional methodological study conducted 420 community older adults age 60 random multistage sampling initial questionnaire developed 22 items seven subscales based extensive literature review evaluation related questionnaires experts opinions face content validity evaluated interviewing 10 older adults 18 specialists construct validity evaluated via knowngroups validity convergent validity reliability questionnaire calculated internal consistency testretest absolute reliability face validity conducted using interviews older adults gathering specialists opinions items grammatically lexically corrected accordingly two items deleted due cvr 044 modified kappa statistic k icvi items higher 088 average content validity index scviave value 094 three items deleted improve internal consistency final ghbq consisted 17 items cronbach 072 acceptable convergent validity approved significant correlation ghbq sf8 health survey r 0613 p value 0001 independent ttest showed older adults education level high school significantly higher health behavior scores education level high school 1193 227 vs 987 235 908 p 0001 intraclass correlation coefficient icc total questionnaire 092 95 ci 084 096 standard error measurement sem minimal detectable change mdc95 071 198 respectively present study results showed geriatrics health behavior questionnaire suitable validity reliability among iranian older adults recommended consider comprehensiveness yet briefness populations passing validation