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Development of a scale to measure adults' perceptions of health: Preliminary findings

✍ Scribed by James J. Diamond; Julie A. Becker; Christine A. Arenson; Christopher V. Chambers; Michael P. Rosenthal

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2007
Tongue
English
Weight
86 KB
Volume
35
Category
Article
ISSN
0090-4392

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Given the national agenda on chronic disease self‐management, the goal of the project described in this brief report was to develop a scale that measured adult perceptions about health but did not focus on a specific condition. The Perception of Health Scale (PHS) is based on earlier work that used the Health Belief Model as a focus. The 15‐item PHS was administered to 322 patients in several settings, and the responses were analyzed by the method of principal components. Four factors emerged that were named: Center of Control, Self‐Awareness, Certainty, and Importance of Health, each of which showed high internal consistency by Cronbach's Ξ±. Overall, the PHS is of sufficient internal consistency to make it a potentially useful tool in research designed to include a measure of personal beliefs about health. Β© 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Comm Psychol 35: 557–561, 2007.

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