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Transcultural Adaptation and Validation of Champion's Health Belief Model Scales for Prostate Cancer Screening
Mohammad H Abuadas1, Wasileh Petro-Nustas, Zainab F Albikawi
1Al-Ghad Colleges for Applied Medical Sciences, Saudi Arabia.
Background:
Examining men's health beliefs regarding prostate cancer screening is a vital issue and requires a reliable and valid scale.
Purpose:
Modify Champion's Revised Health Belief Model Scale to measure Jordanian men's beliefs about PCS, translate to Arabic, culturally adapt, and test its psychometric prosperities.
Method:
This was a methodological study in which 432 healthy men were selected by convenient sampling. Analysis included estimation of content validity indices, internal consistency, construct validity, and predictive validity.
Results:
Exploratory factor analysis yielded seven significant factors which explained variance 68.9% of variance. Confirmatory factor analysis demonstrated that scale fit the data significantly. Cronbach's alpha coefficient ranged from .83 to .92.
Conclusion:
Scale was found to be a valid and reliable for use with Jordanian men.
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