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The translation process of the culturally sensitive active aging scale for community-dwelling older adults in Pakistan
BACKGROUND: The assessment of active aging levels in Pakistani older adults is crucial yet; research tools are scarce in the local language. Therefore, this study aims to translate and validate the English version of an Active Aging Scale into a cross-culturally sensitive Urdu version to assess acti...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10472655/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37653548 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-16563-1 |
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author | Bibi, Rashida Yan, Zhang Zeb, Akhter Anwar, Nasir Mian, Nasar Khan, Roheeda Amanullah |
author_facet | Bibi, Rashida Yan, Zhang Zeb, Akhter Anwar, Nasir Mian, Nasar Khan, Roheeda Amanullah |
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description | BACKGROUND: The assessment of active aging levels in Pakistani older adults is crucial yet; research tools are scarce in the local language. Therefore, this study aims to translate and validate the English version of an Active Aging Scale into a cross-culturally sensitive Urdu version to assess active aging levels in Pakistani older adults. METHODS: To translate and validate the scale, we used the ISPOR (International Society for Pharmacy Economic and Outcome Research) standards. Reliability, concurrent validity, construct validity, convergent validity, and discriminatory validity were checked on a total sample of 160 community-dwelling older adults. After two weeks, the test–retest reliability was examined. AMOS version 23 and SPSS version 23 were used to analyze the data. RESULTS: The average content validity index for clarity was 0.91 and relevancy was 0.80. The total variance in the pilot study of all items secured > 0.3 variances except for two items scored < 0.30 that were omitted before the validity and reliability test. The remaining items explained 65.46% of the overall variation and had factor loadings ranging from 0.46 to 0.90 in the principal factor analysis (PFA). The confirmatory factor analysis of the Active Aging Scale revealed that the model fit was good with a Chi-square value (418.18 (DF = 2.2) which is less than 3.00. This is further evidenced by the root mean square error of approximation (RMSEA) of 0.042, goodness of fit index (GFI) of 0.92, adjusted goodness of fit index (AGFI) of 0.94, and comparative fit index (CFI) values of 0.92 and 0.96 (unstandardized and standardized, respectively). The scale’s Cronbach’s alpha coefficient was 0.88, indicating dependability and its test–retest reliability with the significance of (P. < 0.05). CONCLUSION: The Urdu version of the Active Aging Scale was successfully translated and validated in a culturally sensitive manner, and can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of various active aging interventions for older adults in Pakistan. |
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spelling | pubmed-104726552023-09-02 The translation process of the culturally sensitive active aging scale for community-dwelling older adults in Pakistan Bibi, Rashida Yan, Zhang Zeb, Akhter Anwar, Nasir Mian, Nasar Khan, Roheeda Amanullah BMC Public Health Research BACKGROUND: The assessment of active aging levels in Pakistani older adults is crucial yet; research tools are scarce in the local language. Therefore, this study aims to translate and validate the English version of an Active Aging Scale into a cross-culturally sensitive Urdu version to assess active aging levels in Pakistani older adults. METHODS: To translate and validate the scale, we used the ISPOR (International Society for Pharmacy Economic and Outcome Research) standards. Reliability, concurrent validity, construct validity, convergent validity, and discriminatory validity were checked on a total sample of 160 community-dwelling older adults. After two weeks, the test–retest reliability was examined. AMOS version 23 and SPSS version 23 were used to analyze the data. RESULTS: The average content validity index for clarity was 0.91 and relevancy was 0.80. The total variance in the pilot study of all items secured > 0.3 variances except for two items scored < 0.30 that were omitted before the validity and reliability test. The remaining items explained 65.46% of the overall variation and had factor loadings ranging from 0.46 to 0.90 in the principal factor analysis (PFA). The confirmatory factor analysis of the Active Aging Scale revealed that the model fit was good with a Chi-square value (418.18 (DF = 2.2) which is less than 3.00. This is further evidenced by the root mean square error of approximation (RMSEA) of 0.042, goodness of fit index (GFI) of 0.92, adjusted goodness of fit index (AGFI) of 0.94, and comparative fit index (CFI) values of 0.92 and 0.96 (unstandardized and standardized, respectively). The scale’s Cronbach’s alpha coefficient was 0.88, indicating dependability and its test–retest reliability with the significance of (P. < 0.05). CONCLUSION: The Urdu version of the Active Aging Scale was successfully translated and validated in a culturally sensitive manner, and can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of various active aging interventions for older adults in Pakistan. BioMed Central 2023-08-31 /pmc/articles/PMC10472655/ /pubmed/37653548 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-16563-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Bibi, Rashida Yan, Zhang Zeb, Akhter Anwar, Nasir Mian, Nasar Khan, Roheeda Amanullah The translation process of the culturally sensitive active aging scale for community-dwelling older adults in Pakistan |
title | The translation process of the culturally sensitive active aging scale for community-dwelling older adults in Pakistan |
title_full | The translation process of the culturally sensitive active aging scale for community-dwelling older adults in Pakistan |
title_fullStr | The translation process of the culturally sensitive active aging scale for community-dwelling older adults in Pakistan |
title_full_unstemmed | The translation process of the culturally sensitive active aging scale for community-dwelling older adults in Pakistan |
title_short | The translation process of the culturally sensitive active aging scale for community-dwelling older adults in Pakistan |
title_sort | translation process of the culturally sensitive active aging scale for community-dwelling older adults in pakistan |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10472655/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37653548 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-16563-1 |
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