Psychometric evaluation of a culturally adapted illness perception questionnaire for African Americans with type 2 diabetes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Diabetes is burdensome to African Americans, who are twice as likely to be diagnosed, more likely to develop complications and are at a greater risk for death and disability than non-Hispanic whites. Medication adherence interventions are sometimes ineffective for African Americans because their unique illness perceptions are not adequately addressed. The Illness Perception Questionnaire-Revised (IPQ-R) that assesses illness perceptions has shown reliability and validity problems when used with African Americans. Thus, the study objective was to adapt the IPQ-R for African Americans and assess the validity and reliability of the culturally adapted questionnaire.

Methods

The parent study used an exploratory sequential mixed methods design, to explore African Americ

SUBMITTER: Shiyanbola OO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9007270 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature