Public Health Department, School of Health and Social Development & Health Promotion Research Center, Gonabad University of Medical Sciences, Gonabad, Iran.
J Clin Nurs. 2011 Jun;20(11-12):1561-7. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2010.03479.x. Epub 2011 Feb 9.
The purpose of this study was to translate the Form B of Multidimensional Health Locus of Control Scales into Persian and then to measure its psychometric characteristics among the Iranian youth.
The Health Locus of Control is regarded as an effective variable in developing health behaviours, clinical capacities and in determining health problems. Many studies have been conducted on Form B in the world, which have led to valuable results in health behaviours, health outcomes and health cares.
Questionnaire survey.
Undergraduate students (n=448) participated in this study. The reliability of the scale was calculated through three methods of estimating reliability, namely, test-retest, parallel forms and Cronbach's alpha. To calculate the validity of the scale, we used content, concurrent, construct and predictive methods.
We determined the content validity of the scale by forward and backward-translating each item from English into Persian. The concurrent validity of the questionnaire was estimated as acceptable. To determine the predictive validity, the relationship between Form B and health status was used, an action that showed that health status correlated positively with Internal but negatively with Chance and did not correlate with Powerful others Health Locus of Control. The exploratory factor analysis indicated that the factor structure of the translated scale was quite similar to that of the original one. The internal consistency ranged from 0·69-0·72 and parallel forms reliability indices ranged from 0·70-0·72 for its subscales.
The results indicated that psychometric characteristics of the Iranian version of Form B were estimated acceptable among the youth.
The findings will assist professional health educators and nurses to develop educational interventions that should be designed to support and strengthen students' abilities so that they could recognise, understand and predict health behaviours.
本研究旨在将多维健康控制源量表 B 翻译成波斯语，然后在伊朗青年中测量其心理测量学特征。
健康控制源被认为是发展健康行为、临床能力和确定健康问题的有效变量。世界上已经有许多关于 B 型的研究，这些研究在健康行为、健康结果和健康护理方面取得了有价值的结果。
问卷调查。
本研究纳入了 448 名本科生。通过三种可靠性估计方法，即重测信度、平行形式和克朗巴赫α，计算了量表的信度。为了计算量表的效度，我们使用了内容、同时、结构和预测方法。
我们通过正向和逆向翻译每个项目将量表的内容效度从英文转化为波斯文。问卷的同时效度被评估为可接受。为了确定预测效度，我们使用了 B 型与健康状况之间的关系，结果表明健康状况与内部因素呈正相关，与机会因素呈负相关，与强力他人健康控制源无关。探索性因子分析表明，翻译后的量表的因子结构与原始量表非常相似。内部一致性范围为 0.69-0.72，子量表的平行形式可靠性指数范围为 0.70-0.72。
结果表明，伊朗版 B 型的心理测量学特征在青年中得到了较好的评估。
研究结果将帮助专业健康教育者和护士制定教育干预措施，旨在支持和加强学生的能力，使他们能够识别、理解和预测健康行为。
