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KMID : 0123520120190020197
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Journal of muscle and joint health
2012 Volume.19 No. 2 p.197 ~ p.209
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The Reliability and Validity of the Personal Competence of Health Care (PCHC) Scale
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Lee Kyung-Sook
Choi Jung-Sook
So Ae-Young
Lee Eun-Hee
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Abstract
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Purpose: This study was aimed to revise Personal Power of Health Care (PPHC) scale which was developed to measure the personal power and competence for health care.
Methods: Research phases designed for this study were literature review, scale development, and discussion with experts and pre-test for content validity, and survey for construct validity and reliability. The scale was composed of 25 items with 7 dimensions and tested to 592 adults ranged from 20 to 59 aged living in S and W city.
Results: From factor analysis, 7 dimensions were identified and named as follows: Health-perception, Health problem identifying and solving, Socio economical involvement, Sociocultural relationship, Self-regulation, Spiritual wellbeing, and Health policy participation. The total explained variance was 54.69%. The reliability was .817 of Cronbach’s alpha. The PCHC scale was significantly different from gender, religion, education level, monthly income, and presence of family disease, but not different from age and job. Also, there were significant correlations among Health Promotion Lifestyles Profile II, WHO QOL-BREF and self-efficacy.
Conclusion: This PCHC scale is reliable and valid to measure personal competence of health care.
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KEYWORD
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Health, Competence, Health promotion, Quality of life, Self-efficacy
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