Health protective behavior scale: Development and psychometric evaluation.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

A healthy lifestyle includes health protective and health promoting behaviors. Health promoting lifestyle profiles have been developed, but measures of health protective behavior are still lacking. This study sought to develop a health protecting behavior scale.

Methods

An initial item pool for the Health Protective Behavior Scale (HPBS) was generated based on read and referred literature and a single-item open-ended survey. An expert group screened this initial item pool using an item-level content validity index. Pilot testing was conducted. The degree of variation, the response rate, the item-total correlation coefficient, and the factor loading in factor analysis and item analysis were used to screen items using data of pilot testing. 454 subjects were recruite

SUBMITTER: Ping W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5757924 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature