Development and validation of a questionnaire to assess the health related Social Capital for Chronic Kidney Disease among Mexican adolescents.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Social Capital on health has been studied widely, to date there is no valid and reliable questionnaire that measure it in Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD).

Objective

To develop, validate and assess the reliability of Social Capital related to CKD questionnaire for Mexican adolescents.

Methods

An instrumental study was employed to validate a questionnaire that assesses the cognitive and structural domains of Social Capital related to CKD. The questionnaire was generated by operationalization of the constructs and validated by assessing the content, face validity, criteria and construct validity. Reliability was assessed through the Cronbach´s alpha.

Results

The content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed through Kendall's W of 0.925 (p = 0.01) and

SUBMITTER: Quinones-Villalobos C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12279121 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature