Development and validation of psychosocial determinants measures of physical activity among Iranian adolescent girls

• Main Authors: Faghihzadeh Soghrate (Author), Asghari Ali (Author), Hidarnia Alireza (Author), Pirasteh Ashraf (Author), Ghofranipour Fazlollah (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2008-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Summary

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The present study aimed at assessing the psychometric properties of psychosocial determinants of physical activity-related measures in Iranian adolescent girls.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>Several measures of psychosocial determinants of physical activity were translated from English into Persian using the back-translation technique. These translated measures were administered to 512 ninth and tenth-grade Iranian high school students.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>The results of a series of factor analysis showed that the self-efficacy scale contained a single factor, the social support scale contained two factors: family support and friend support, the physical activity 'pros & cons' scale contained two factors: physical activity pros scale and physical activity cons scale, the change strategies scale contained a single factor, the environment scale also contained a single factor. Chronbach's alphas, mean inter-item correlations and test-retest coefficients showed that these solutions were reliable. </p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>These preliminary results provide support for using the mentioned scales to measure psychosocial determinants of physical activity in Iranian adolescent girls.</p>

Item Description

10.1186/1471-2458-8-150
1471-2458