Identifying the Psychometric Properties of the Malay Version of the WHOQOL-BREF among Employees with Obesity Problem

Mohd Helma Rusyda, Nor Ba’yah Abdul Kadir, Wan Nur Khairunnisa Ismail, Siti Jamiaah Abdul Jalil, Nurul-Azza Abdullah, Arena Che Kasim, Suzana Mohd. Hoesni and Mohd Rizal Abdul Manaf
Additional contact information
Mohd Helma Rusyda: Centre for Research in Psychology and Human Well-being, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi 43600, Malaysia
Nor Ba’yah Abdul Kadir: Centre for Research in Psychology and Human Well-being, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi 43600, Malaysia
Wan Nur Khairunnisa Ismail: Centre for Research in Psychology and Human Well-being, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi 43600, Malaysia
Siti Jamiaah Abdul Jalil: Department of Dakwah and Leadership, Faculty of Islamic Studies, Universiti Kebangsan Malaysia, Bangi 43600, Malaysia
Nurul-Azza Abdullah: Centre for Research in Psychology and Human Well-being, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi 43600, Malaysia
Arena Che Kasim: Centre for Research in Psychology and Human Well-being, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi 43600, Malaysia
Suzana Mohd. Hoesni: Centre for Research in Psychology and Human Well-being, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi 43600, Malaysia
Mohd Rizal Abdul Manaf: Department of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi 43600, Malaysia

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 12, 1-13

Abstract: The Malay version of the WHOQOL-BREF was published approximately 15 years ago. Since then, no known research has been conducted to identify the psychometric properties of the scale using confirmatory factor analysis. This study aimed to establish a model by applying a scientific approach to the translation and adaptation method. The back translation technique was used for the translation process. This cross-sectional study involved 282 employees at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. The instrument received satisfactory Cronbach’s alpha reliability values. The data were analysed with SEM using AMOS. Results showed that the model produced is parsimonious, with CMIN/df = 0.23, CFI = 0.93, SRMR = 0.08, RMSEA = 0.08 and PCLOSE = 0.07. Adopting the Malay version of the WHOQOL-BREF for future research is highly recommended due to its properties.

Keywords: WHOQOL; quality of life; psychometric properties; back translation; Malay translation; obese employees (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/19/12/7542/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/19/12/7542/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:19:y:2022:i:12:p:7542-:d:843256

Access Statistics for this article

IJERPH is currently edited by Ms. Jenna Liu

More articles in IJERPH from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().