The Chinese Version of the Health Behavior Motivation Scale(HBMS)and Its Reliability and Validity in the Elderly in the Community
Objective The Health Behavior Motivation Scale(HBMS)was translated into Chinese,and the reliability and va-lidity of HBMS in the elderly people in the community were tested.Methods After obtaining authorization from the original author,HBMS was translated into Chinese and adapted across cultures using Brislin translation principles.A total of 442 elderly people were selected from 3 districts(Guta District,Linghe District and Taihe District)in Jinzhou City,Liaoning Province by convenience sam-pling method.Through project analysis,project differentiation is discussed.Delphi method was used to analyze the content validity,and exploratory factor analysis(EFA)and confirmatory factor analysis(CFA)were used to explore and verify the potential factor structure in the scale.Calculate internal consistency and retest reliability to test reliability.Internal consistency was calculated and reli-ability was retested to test reliability.Results A total of 30 items were retained in the analysis,and the content validity index of the translation scale was 0.957.In EFA,five common factors including intrinsic regulation,integration and recognition regulation,in-trinsic regulation,external regulation and unmotivation were extracted.71.254%of the total variance was explained.CFA results showed thatx2/df=1.521,NFI=0.901,TLI=0.959,CFI=0.963,IFI=0.964,RMSAE=0.049.Cronbach's α coefficient,split-half reliability and test-retest reliability of Chinese HBMS were 0.965,0.883 and 0.882,respectively.Conclusion The Chinese version of HBMS has good reliability and validity,and can be used to measure the level of health behavior motivation of the elderly in the community.
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