Development and initial validation of the Support for Healthy Lifestyle (SHeL) questionnaire for adolescents.

ABSTRACT: This study developed and provided initial validation for the Support for Healthy Lifestyle (SHeL), a set of scales designed to measure adolescent-perceived social support of healthy eating and physical activity. Item pool development utilized a prior focus group study of adolescents' perceptions of socially supportive behavior and a review of the literature on social support for health behavior change in adolescents. Exploratory factor analysis of the item pool completed by 220 adolescents, internal consistency estimates, and expert review of items and consensus resulted in 9 scales for the SHeL: Family Healthy Eating Support, Family Physical Activity Support, Family Hypocritical Control, Peer Health Eating Support, Peer Physical Activity Support, Peer Undermining, Professional Healthy Eat

SUBMITTER: Biggs BK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6708506 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature