Development and Evaluation of Health Empowerment Scale for North Korean Women Defectors
- 주제(키워드) North Korea , Health , Empowerment , Reliability and Validity
- 주제(기타) Nursing
- 설명문(일반) [Lim, Semi] Gwangju Univ, Dept Nursing, Gwangju, South Korea; [Kang, Younhee] Ewha Womans Univ, Coll Nursing, Grad Program Syst Hlth Sci & Engn, Seoul, South Korea
- 등재 SCIE, SSCI, SCOPUS, KCI등재
- 발행기관 KOREAN SOC NURSING SCIENCE
- 발행년도 2022
- URI http://www.dcollection.net/handler/ewha/000000190108
- 본문언어 한국어
- Published As https://doi.org/10.4040/jkan.21174
- PubMed https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35274622
초록/요약
Purpose: This study developed an instrument to evaluate the health empowerment of North Korean women refugees and examined its validity and reliability. Methods: Through literature review and focused group interviews, 66 preliminary items with three constructs, including perceived control, perceived competence, and goal internalization were selected based on Menon's psychological health empowerment model. A questionnaire survey was conducted with 239 North Korean women refugees in the community from August 31 to September 4, 2020. Content, construct, convergent, and discriminative validity were evaluated. Cronbach's a was used to evaluate the reliability of scale. Results: The final instrument consisted of 31 items with three factors that were identified through confirmatory factor analysis. The convergent validity showed that the correlation coefficient was .52 (p < .001), which confirmed the validity of the developed measurement tool. Cronbach's a for all the items was .94, and Cronbach's a for the factors was .76 similar to 91. Conclusion: This health empowerment scale has been developed to include aspects of health empowerment, provide a conceptual framework, and offer objective indicators to evaluate the effectiveness of a health education program.
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