Development and Validation of the Narrative Quality Assessment Tool

Area of Science:

• Health Promotion
• Behavioral Science
• Psychology

Background:

• Storytelling is increasingly used in health promotion for behavior change.
• There's a need for culturally specific measures to assess storytelling's impact on health behaviors.
• Existing methods lack cultural context for evaluating narrative elements.

Purpose of the Study:

• Develop and preliminarily validate a narrative quality assessment tool.
• Measure key storytelling elements: narrative characteristics, identification, and transportation.
• Utilize a culture-centric model for health promotion in a community setting.

Main Methods:

• Assessed reliability and validity of new scales.
• Used repeated administrations with 74 Latino adults.
• Employed confirmatory factor analysis and internal consistency tests.

Main Results:

• Scales demonstrated preliminary evidence of reliability and validity.
• Cronbach's alpha values ranged from .92 to .94.
• Items showed adequate factor loadings (.85-.98) and good model fit.

Conclusions:

• The new scales offer a culturally relevant approach to assessing narrative quality in health promotion.
• Provides valuable data for nurse researchers developing culturally grounded storytelling interventions.
• Aims to improve prediction of attitude and behavior change in patients.