Attitude towards health promotion in university students. Construction and validation of a scale.
Gac Sanit
; 38: 102395, 2024 May 22.
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| ID: mdl-38781777
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
To construct and validate a questionnaire about the attitude of university students toward health promotion.METHOD:
A cross-sectional study. A questionnaire of 14 questions was designed and administered to 1486 first-year undergraduates. The principal axes factoring method with oblique rotation was applied and a confirmatory factor analysis was carried out. Reliability was calculated through internal consistency with Cronbach's alpha and item-total correlation for the global scale and its subscales.RESULTS:
A 14-item scale was constructed, with two dimensions. Its Cronbach's alpha was 0.872, and 0.852, and 0.718 for its subscales. The adjustment values of the confirmatory factor analysis were adequate.CONCLUSIONS:
The attitude towards health promotion scale has shown to have adequate psychometric properties. It is an instrument that will help to detect referents and health assets for future interventions.
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MEDLINE
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En
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Gac Sanit
Journal subject:
SAUDE PUBLICA
Year:
2024
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Article
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