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C A Young1, R J Mills, J Woolmore
1The Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Liverpool, UK. carolyn.young@thewaltoncentre.nhs.uk
Background:
Self-efficacy concerns the individual's belief that he or she is capable of performing a certain task and producing a desired effect, i.e. it reflects the person's perceptions of their capability for specific tasks, as distinct from their actual ability. Self-efficacy has been shown to influence motivation, psychological well-being, adherence with treatment regimes and quality of life in multiple sclerosis and other conditions.
Objective:
To develop a unidimensional scale of MS self-efficacy with robust psychometric properties, suitable for patient self report.
Methods:
A questionnaire pack covering three MS self-efficacy scales, the Dispositional Resilience Scale and demographic data was posted to MS patients from two MS databases. Data underwent Rasch analysis.
Results:
Response rate was 309/600 (51.5%). None of the existing MS self-efficacy scales were unidimensional. A new 12-item scale, created by combining items from our two scales, was shown to fit the Rasch model, was unidimensional, and invariant for gender, education and disease duration.
Conclusion:
The Unidimensional Self-Efficacy scale for MS (USE-MS) provides a simple summated scale for an ordinal estimate of a persons' self efficacy. A transformation to interval scaling is available for use in the calculation of change scores and effect sizes.
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