Cargando…

Self-care behaviors related to air pollution protection questionnaire: a psychometric analysis

BACKGROUND: Air pollution is an environmental health issue that has received much attention due to its harmful effects on public health. The aim of this study was to determine the psychometric properties of the self-care behaviors related to air pollution protection. To this mean, questionnaire resp...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Mirzaei-Alavijeh, Mehdi, Jalilian, Farzad, Dragoi, Elena-Niculina, Pirouzeh, Razieh, Solaimanizadeh, Laleh, Khashij, Shima
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7146995/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32308980
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13690-020-00400-7
_version_ 1783520329491021824
author Mirzaei-Alavijeh, Mehdi
Jalilian, Farzad
Dragoi, Elena-Niculina
Pirouzeh, Razieh
Solaimanizadeh, Laleh
Khashij, Shima
author_facet Mirzaei-Alavijeh, Mehdi
Jalilian, Farzad
Dragoi, Elena-Niculina
Pirouzeh, Razieh
Solaimanizadeh, Laleh
Khashij, Shima
author_sort Mirzaei-Alavijeh, Mehdi
collection PubMed
description BACKGROUND: Air pollution is an environmental health issue that has received much attention due to its harmful effects on public health. The aim of this study was to determine the psychometric properties of the self-care behaviors related to air pollution protection. To this mean, questionnaire responses provided by Iranian college students were analyzed and a Health Belief Model (HBM) determined. METHODS: The self-care behavior related to air pollution protection was determined from responses from 301 university students using test item characteristics, face validity, reliability (internal consistency) and construct validity. Moreover, we carried out an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) to determine the factorial structure and explained variance. RESULTS: Based on Eigenvalues of ≥1.00 and factor loadings of ≥0.40, seven factors were extracted. The calculated Kaiser–Meyer–Olkin value was 0.804. Overall, the seven factors explain 66.39% of the variance in the hypothesized model. Cronbach’s alpha for the measured factors: the perceived susceptibility, severity, barriers, benefits, self-efficacy, cues to action and behavior were 0.85, 0.79, 0.86, 0.66, 0.74, 0.83, and 0.75, respectively. CONCLUSION: The analysis of the questionnaire’s reliability and validity properties resulted in good values. The questionnaire is a promising instrument to assess self-care behavior related to air pollution protection from the perspective of college students.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-7146995
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2020
publisher BioMed Central
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-71469952020-04-18 Self-care behaviors related to air pollution protection questionnaire: a psychometric analysis Mirzaei-Alavijeh, Mehdi Jalilian, Farzad Dragoi, Elena-Niculina Pirouzeh, Razieh Solaimanizadeh, Laleh Khashij, Shima Arch Public Health Research BACKGROUND: Air pollution is an environmental health issue that has received much attention due to its harmful effects on public health. The aim of this study was to determine the psychometric properties of the self-care behaviors related to air pollution protection. To this mean, questionnaire responses provided by Iranian college students were analyzed and a Health Belief Model (HBM) determined. METHODS: The self-care behavior related to air pollution protection was determined from responses from 301 university students using test item characteristics, face validity, reliability (internal consistency) and construct validity. Moreover, we carried out an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) to determine the factorial structure and explained variance. RESULTS: Based on Eigenvalues of ≥1.00 and factor loadings of ≥0.40, seven factors were extracted. The calculated Kaiser–Meyer–Olkin value was 0.804. Overall, the seven factors explain 66.39% of the variance in the hypothesized model. Cronbach’s alpha for the measured factors: the perceived susceptibility, severity, barriers, benefits, self-efficacy, cues to action and behavior were 0.85, 0.79, 0.86, 0.66, 0.74, 0.83, and 0.75, respectively. CONCLUSION: The analysis of the questionnaire’s reliability and validity properties resulted in good values. The questionnaire is a promising instrument to assess self-care behavior related to air pollution protection from the perspective of college students. BioMed Central 2020-04-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7146995/ /pubmed/32308980 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13690-020-00400-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
spellingShingle Research
Mirzaei-Alavijeh, Mehdi
Jalilian, Farzad
Dragoi, Elena-Niculina
Pirouzeh, Razieh
Solaimanizadeh, Laleh
Khashij, Shima
Self-care behaviors related to air pollution protection questionnaire: a psychometric analysis
title Self-care behaviors related to air pollution protection questionnaire: a psychometric analysis
title_full Self-care behaviors related to air pollution protection questionnaire: a psychometric analysis
title_fullStr Self-care behaviors related to air pollution protection questionnaire: a psychometric analysis
title_full_unstemmed Self-care behaviors related to air pollution protection questionnaire: a psychometric analysis
title_short Self-care behaviors related to air pollution protection questionnaire: a psychometric analysis
title_sort self-care behaviors related to air pollution protection questionnaire: a psychometric analysis
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7146995/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32308980
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13690-020-00400-7
work_keys_str_mv AT mirzaeialavijehmehdi selfcarebehaviorsrelatedtoairpollutionprotectionquestionnaireapsychometricanalysis
AT jalilianfarzad selfcarebehaviorsrelatedtoairpollutionprotectionquestionnaireapsychometricanalysis
AT dragoielenaniculina selfcarebehaviorsrelatedtoairpollutionprotectionquestionnaireapsychometricanalysis
AT pirouzehrazieh selfcarebehaviorsrelatedtoairpollutionprotectionquestionnaireapsychometricanalysis
AT solaimanizadehlaleh selfcarebehaviorsrelatedtoairpollutionprotectionquestionnaireapsychometricanalysis
AT khashijshima selfcarebehaviorsrelatedtoairpollutionprotectionquestionnaireapsychometricanalysis