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Title: | Psychometric properties of the health-promoting lifestyle profile II: cross-cultural validation of the Malay language version |
Authors: | Kuan, Garry Kueh, Yee Cheng Abdullah, Nurzulaikha Tai, Evelyn Li Min |
Issue Date: | 13-Jun-2019 |
Publisher: | Springer Science and Business Media LLC |
Citation: | BMC Public Health, 2019, 19 (1) |
Abstract: | Background: Health-promoting behaviour is an important concept for health education. Unfortunately, there is a dearth of validated instruments to measure levels of health-promoting behaviour in the Malaysian context. The purpose of this study was to validate a Malay-language version of the Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile II (HPLP-II) using a confirmatory approach. Methods: Participants were 997 university undergraduate students, with a mean age of 21 years (SD = 1.58). The majority of the participants (80.4%) were female. Health-promoting behaviour was assessed using the 52-item HPLP-II, which measures six components of health-promoting behaviour outcomes. HPLP-II was translated into the Malay language using standard forward and backward translation procedures. Participants then completed the HPLP-II Malay version (HPLP-II-M). Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was conducted using Mplus 8.0 software on the six domains of HPLP-II-M model. Results: The CFA result based on the hypothesised measurement model of six factors was aligned with the original HPLP-II, except for two low loading items which were subsequently removed from the CFA analysis. The final CFA measurement model with 50 items resulted in a good fit to the data based on RMSEA and SRMR fit indices (RMSEA = 0.046, 90%CI = 0.045, 0.048, SRMR = 0.062). The construct reliabilities for the HPLP-II-M subscales were acceptable, ranging from 0.737 to 0.878. Conclusion: The HPLP-II-M with six components of health-promoting behaviour outcomes and 50 items was considered valid and reliable for the present Malaysian sample. |
URI: | http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/20267 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7109-2 |
ISSN: | 751 751 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7109-2 1471-2458 |
Other Identifiers: | 751 751 |
Appears in Collections: | Dept of Life Sciences Research Papers |
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