Development and validation of the short-form Adolescent Health Promotion Scale.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health-promoting lifestyle choices of adolescents are closely related to current and subsequent health status. However, parsimonious yet reliable and valid screening tools are scarce. The original 40-item adolescent health promotion (AHP) scale was developed by our research team and has been applied to measure adolescent health-promoting behaviors worldwide. The aim of our study was to examine the psychometric properties of a newly developed short-form version of the AHP (AHP-SF) including tests of its reliability and validity.

Methods

The study was conducted in nine middle and high schools in southern Taiwan. Participants were 814 adolescents randomly divided into two subgroups with equal size and homogeneity of baseline characteristics. The first subsample (cali

SUBMITTER: Chen MY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4216378 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature