Psychometric Properties of the Health Empowerment Scale Arabic Version for Working Women in Saudi Arabia.

ABSTRACT: In a country such as Saudi Arabia where gender equality-related challenges continue to be social issues, measuring the health empowerment of Saudi working women is critical in understanding the real picture of women empowerment in the country during this era of great transformation. Therefore, we conducted this research to evaluate psychometric properties of the Health Empowerment Scale Arabic version (HES-A) in measuring the health empowerment of Saudi working women. We surveyed a sample of 322 Saudi working women from June to August 2020 using an online survey constituting questions on demographic and work-related information and the HES-A. The computed values for the item-level content validity index of the 8 scale items were from .80 and 1.00, whereas the computed value of the scale-le

SUBMITTER: Alquwez N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8613888 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature