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Validity and reliability of the multidimensional health locus of control scale for college students

BACKGROUND: The purpose of the present study was to assess the validity and reliability of Form A of Multidimensional Health Locus of Control scales in Iran. Health locus of control is one of the most widely measured parameters of health belief for the planning of health education programs. METHODS:...

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Autores principales: Moshki, Mahdi, Ghofranipour, Fazlollah, Hajizadeh, Ebrahim, Azadfallah, Parviz
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2206030/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17942001
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-7-295
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author Moshki, Mahdi
Ghofranipour, Fazlollah
Hajizadeh, Ebrahim
Azadfallah, Parviz
author_facet Moshki, Mahdi
Ghofranipour, Fazlollah
Hajizadeh, Ebrahim
Azadfallah, Parviz
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description BACKGROUND: The purpose of the present study was to assess the validity and reliability of Form A of Multidimensional Health Locus of Control scales in Iran. Health locus of control is one of the most widely measured parameters of health belief for the planning of health education programs. METHODS: 496 university students participated in this study. The reliability coefficients were calculated in three different methods: test-retest, parallel forms and Cronbach alpha. In order to survey validity of the scale we used three methods including content validity, concurrent validity and construct validity. RESULTS: We established the content validity of the Persian translation by translating (and then back-translating) each item from the English version into the Persian version. The concurrent validity of the questionnaire, as measured by Levenson's IPC scale was .57 (P < .001), .49 (P < .01) and .53 (P < .001) for IPC, respectively. Exploratory principal components analysis supported a three-factor structure that items loading adequately on each factor. Moreover, the approximate orthogonal of the dimensions were obtained through correlation analyses. In addition, the reliability results were acceptable, too. CONCLUSION: The results showed that the reliability and validity of Persian Form A of MHLC was acceptable and respectable and is suggested as an applicable criterion for similar studies in Iran.
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spelling pubmed-22060302008-01-18 Validity and reliability of the multidimensional health locus of control scale for college students Moshki, Mahdi Ghofranipour, Fazlollah Hajizadeh, Ebrahim Azadfallah, Parviz BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: The purpose of the present study was to assess the validity and reliability of Form A of Multidimensional Health Locus of Control scales in Iran. Health locus of control is one of the most widely measured parameters of health belief for the planning of health education programs. METHODS: 496 university students participated in this study. The reliability coefficients were calculated in three different methods: test-retest, parallel forms and Cronbach alpha. In order to survey validity of the scale we used three methods including content validity, concurrent validity and construct validity. RESULTS: We established the content validity of the Persian translation by translating (and then back-translating) each item from the English version into the Persian version. The concurrent validity of the questionnaire, as measured by Levenson's IPC scale was .57 (P < .001), .49 (P < .01) and .53 (P < .001) for IPC, respectively. Exploratory principal components analysis supported a three-factor structure that items loading adequately on each factor. Moreover, the approximate orthogonal of the dimensions were obtained through correlation analyses. In addition, the reliability results were acceptable, too. CONCLUSION: The results showed that the reliability and validity of Persian Form A of MHLC was acceptable and respectable and is suggested as an applicable criterion for similar studies in Iran. BioMed Central 2007-10-18 /pmc/articles/PMC2206030/ /pubmed/17942001 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-7-295 Text en Copyright © 2007 Moshki et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Ghofranipour, Fazlollah
Hajizadeh, Ebrahim
Azadfallah, Parviz
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title Validity and reliability of the multidimensional health locus of control scale for college students
title_full Validity and reliability of the multidimensional health locus of control scale for college students
title_fullStr Validity and reliability of the multidimensional health locus of control scale for college students
title_full_unstemmed Validity and reliability of the multidimensional health locus of control scale for college students
title_short Validity and reliability of the multidimensional health locus of control scale for college students
title_sort validity and reliability of the multidimensional health locus of control scale for college students
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2206030/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17942001
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-7-295
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