Translation and psychometric validation of the Persian version of the Questionnaire on Smoking Urges for assessment of craving to smoke among university students.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Even though tobacco is one of the most preventable causes of death worldwide, it endangers more than 8 million people yearly. In this context, meta-analyses suggest that a significant part of the general Iranian population over 15 years of age smoke and that there is a need for good screening tools for smoking cravings and urges in Iran. The present study reported the translation and investigated the psychometric properties (i.e., factor structure, validity, and reliability) of the Persian version of the Questionnaire on Smoking Urges (QSU) with 12 items in the Iranian context.

Method

The translation process and content validity of the items were examined entirely in an expert panel using the Content Validity Index. The total sample of participants in which

SUBMITTER: Kazemitabar M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8627126 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature