The Moyamoya Health Behavior Scale for Adolescent Patients: Measurement Tool Development and Psychometric Evaluation

Won-oak Oh, Insun Yeom, Sung-Hyun Lim, Dong-Seok Kim and Kyu-won Shim
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Won-oak Oh: College of Nursing, Korea University, 145 Anam-ro, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul 02481, Korea
Insun Yeom: Department of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Severance Children’s Hospital, Yonsei University Health System, 50-1 Yeonse-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 03722, Korea
Sung-Hyun Lim: College of Nursing, Korea University, 145 Anam-ro, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul 02481, Korea
Dong-Seok Kim: Department of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Severance Children’s Hospital, Yonsei University Health System, 50-1 Yeonse-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 03722, Korea
Kyu-won Shim: Department of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Severance Children’s Hospital, Yonsei University Health System, 50-1 Yeonse-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 03722, Korea

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 8, 1-15

Abstract: Clinical practitioners treating moyamoya disease recognize the need for a systematic approach to better manage the disease in adolescent patients with the disease. Methods : This study aimed to develop and evaluate the validity and reliability of a disease scale which measures the health-related behaviors of adolescents with moyamoya disease. Results : The final 12-item Moyamoya-HB Scale for adolescents was categorized by three sub-domains: implementation of treatment for moyamoya disease (four items); health promoting behavior for moyamoya disease (four items); and health coping behavior for moyamoya disease (four items). Overall, these factors explained 68.97% of the total variance. The results of the confirmative factor analysis supported the construct, convergent and discriminant validity of the three sub-domains. The Moyamoya-HB Scale for adolescents also demonstrated a concurrent validity with the Korean Adolescents’ Health Behaviors Tool (r = 0.59, p < 0.001). Reliability analysis showed an acceptable-to-high Cronbach’s alpha of 0.865 in total, and the subscales ranged from 0.800 to 0.841. Conclusions : Initial findings support the Moyamoya-HB Scale as a reliable and valid measure of health behaviors in adolescents with moyamoya disease.

Keywords: moyamoya disease; adolescent; health behavior; psychometrics; safety evaluation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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