Istituto Auxologico Italiano IRCCS, Milan, Italy.
University of Milano-Bicocca, Faculty of Medicine, Milan, Italy.
High Blood Press Cardiovasc Prev. 2023 Sep;30(5):475-484. doi: 10.1007/s40292-023-00603-3. Epub 2023 Oct 17.
The number of Italian citizens unaware of their risk of cardiovascular disease it is still very high.
This study aimed to translate and preliminarily validate a brief Italian version of the Perception of Risk of Heart Disease Scale (PRHDS).
PRHDS was culturally adapted to the Italian context. Then, the scale was administered to 772 healthy adults. By randomly dividing the sample into two subsamples, we tested the scale dimensionality through Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) followed by Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA). Finally, we evaluated internal consistency.
Psychometric properties of the scale were appropriate. EFA and CFA evidenced a unidimensional structure of a brief version of the scale, composed of six items. Internal consistency was adequate.
Italian version of the brief PRHDS is a promising self-report questionnaire to measure cardiovascular risk perception among Italian adults.
意大利公民对心血管疾病风险的认识程度仍然很低。
本研究旨在翻译并初步验证心脏病风险感知量表（PRHDS）的简短意大利语版本。
PRHDS 经过文化适应性调整以适应意大利的情况。然后，对 772 名健康成年人进行了该量表的测试。通过随机将样本分为两个子样本，我们通过探索性因素分析（EFA）然后进行验证性因素分析（CFA）来测试量表的维度。最后，我们评估了内部一致性。
该量表的心理测量特性良好。EFA 和 CFA 证明了简短版本量表的单维结构，由六个项目组成。内部一致性是足够的。
简短版 PRHDS 的意大利语版本是一种很有前途的自报问卷，可以衡量意大利成年人的心血管疾病风险感知。
