The Turkish Adaptation of the Diabetes Fatalism Scale: A Validity and Reliability Study.

This study was carried out as a validity and reliability study of the Turkish version of the Diabetes Fatalism Scale (DFS) and to investigate its psychometric properties in the Turkish society with type 2 diabetes patients. Exploratory factor analysis was conducted to assess the scale's factor structure. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was performed to validate the "best fit" model. The explanatory factor analysis and CFA results confirmed the three-factor structure of the scale. The Cronbach's α, item-total correlation and test-retest analyses showed high reliability. The results showed that DFS is a valid and reliable tool for evaluating fatalism in diabetic patients from a Turkish population.