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Development of the physical activity counseling practices scale in health professionals: a validity and reliability
Musa Çankaya1, Serdar Arslan2, Gökmen Yapalı2
1Seydişehir Vocational School of Health Services, Therapy and Rehabilitation Department, Necmettin Erbakan University, Konya, Turkey. mcankaya@erbakan.edu.tr.
Objective:
The aim is to develop the scale of Physical Activity Counseling Practices (PACPS) in Turkish and validate it among health professionals.
Methods:
PACPS test-retest was applied to 162 health professionals (physician, physiotherapist, dietician, nurse) with a 1-week interval. Construct validity, correlations of PACPS with other scales were evaluated with the International Physical Activity Questionnaire short form (IPAQ), Conscious Behavioral Physical Activity Questionnaire (CBAPQ).
Results:
The content validity index value of the scale was found to be 0.76. The overall internal consistency of the scale (Cronbach α:0.917) was high. The item-total correlations of the scale are between 0.45 and 0.76.
Conclusion:
This study, it was determined that the PACPS scale has good internal consistency, test-retest validity and sufficient construct validity when compared with the IPAQ and CBAPQ.
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