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Validation of the psychometric properties of the health-promoting lifestyle profile in a sample of Taiwanese women

Auteurs: Lo Meihan, Wong Chung-Ngok

Gepubliceerd in: Quality of Life Research | Uitgave 4/2011

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Abstract

Purpose

To examine the preliminary psychometric properties of the Chinese health-promoting lifestyle profile II (HPLP II) among Taiwanese women.

Methods

We conducted a secondary analysis of cross-sectional data from 137 middle-aged women in southern Taiwan. HPLP II reliability was estimated with Cronbach’s α coefficient, and concurrent validity was estimated with Pearson’s correlation between the HPLP II, the World Health Organization’s abbreviated Quality of Life assessment (WHOQOL-BREF), perceived health, and demographic variables. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) evaluated construct validity.

Results

Initial CFA using a six-factor measurement model aligned with the original HPLP II, excepting the factor loading of one subsequently excluded item. CFA of the revised 51-item HPLP II yielded a good estimate of fit. Correlations between the revised instrument and the six subscales were acceptable >0.7. The Cronbach’s α coefficient surpassed 0.7 for the revised instrument and six subscales ranged from 0.71 to 0.91. The relationships between the 51-item instrument, perceived health, WHOQOL-BREF domain scores, and demographic variables were also significantly positive.

Conclusions

The revised HPLP II scale is appropriate to measure the health-promoting lifestyles of Taiwanese women.
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Introduction

Healthy lifestyles significantly impact aging and health care expenditure in aging societies. Cross-cultural evidence has shown that healthy practices in earlier life can effectively delay and/or prevent many chronic medical conditions in later life [1]. Women comprise the largest segment of the global elderly population; the maintenance of women’s healthy lifestyles can therefore significantly offset global health spending. Health promotion is particularly important for middle-aged women, because healthy behaviors such as regular exercise and stress management can effectively reduce the severity of physical transitions and health problems [2]. A reliable instrument for the measurement of healthy lifestyles is, therefore, essential to understanding and addressing the health promotion needs of middle-aged women.
The Health-promoting lifestyle profile II (HPLP II) is an instrument that has been widely used to measure health-promoting lifestyles in western healthy populations and clinical disorder groups [35]. A recent paper validated a short-form translated Chinese version of the HPLP II in a general outpatient population [6]. A validation of the Chinese-language version of this instrument among healthy community-dwelling women, however, has not been reported. This study examined the preliminary psychometric properties of the Chinese HPLP II among middle-aged Taiwanese women.

Methods

This secondary analysis used cross-sectional data comparing healthy behavior and quality of life (QOL) among caregivers and non-caregivers in Taiwan [7]. The Chinese HPLP II used to measure the participants’ healthy behavior was the primary research instrument in the present study.

Participants

The original study included a convenience sample of 137 middle-aged women (39 caregivers, 98 non-caregivers; aged 40–65 years) from urban environments of Tainan city in southern Taiwan. The participants understood Mandarin or the Taiwanese dialect and were recruited in small businesses, such as snack and coffee shops, and public areas, such as traditional markets and supermarkets. The participant details and sampling design of the original study may be found in Lo (2009) [7]. Table 1 presents the demographic characteristics of the sample.
Table 1
Participant characteristics (n = 137)
Characteristics
Mean ± SD
Range
Age (year)
50.39 ± 5.3
40–64
 
Number
Percentage
Marital status
 Single
9
6.6
 Married
118
86.1
 Divorced
7
5.1
 Other
3
2.2
Education
 0–6 years
18
13.2
 7–12 years
101
73.8
 13 + years
18
13.1
Employment
 Full-time
71
51.8
 Part-time
11
8.1
 Housewife
43
31.4
 Unemployment
12
8.7
Financial status
 Very good
5
3.6
 Comfortable
57
41.6
 Just enough
59
43.1
 Deficient
16
11.7

Instrument

The original validated English version of the HPLP II is a 52-item instrument that measures health-promoting behaviors on six subscales: health responsibility (HR, nine items), physical activity (PA, eight items), nutrition (N, nine items), spiritual growth (SG, nine items), interpersonal relations (IR, nine items), and stress management (SM, eight items) [8]. Respondents rated the frequency with which they practiced each of the 52 behaviors on a four-point Likert scale (never, sometimes, often, routinely). The total HPLP II score was the mean of all responses to the 52 items.
With permission from the HPLP developers, two bilingual nurse educators at the National Tainan Institute of Nursing translated the English version into Chinese. A blind back-translation was conducted via email by a bilingual Taiwanese Registered Nurse working in the United States [7]. Lo compared the two versions, making minor linguistic revisions and retranslating three SG items. The conceptual and content equivalence of the translated instrument were judged by a professional panel including five bilingual public health nurse educators, using a four-point scale (not relevant, somewhat relevant, relevant, very relevant). All 52 items rated 3 or 4 and were considered to have conceptual and content validity without amendment. A pilot study then assessed the readability and comprehension of the Chinese HPLP II by the target population, using 10 middle-aged non-caregiving women who were not included in the main study. They had no difficulty understanding and completing the instrument. A 2-week test–retest reliability assessment produced Cronbach’s α coefficients exceeding 0.91 for the total score and all subscales [7] (see Appendix A which is the HPLPII Chinese version).

Data analysis

The data were analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 17 and Amos version 7.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA). The reliability of the Chinese HPLP II was evaluated by measuring internal consistency and item-total correlation. Cronbach’s α statistics measured the internal consistency of the subscales, with a value of 0.7 or greater indicating acceptable consistency.
The construct validity of the instrument was assessed with confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). This analysis used structural equation modeling to test the model structure. We defined a goodness-of-fit model with the following criteria: (1) the likelihood-ratio chi-square statistics would be insignificant, indicating no differences between the predicted and actual models; (2) the adjusted goodness-of-fit index (AGFI) and normed fit index (NFI) values would be greater than 0.90; and (3) the root mean square error of approximation (RMSEA) would be less than 0.05. Concurrent validity was tested by seeking relationships between quality of life, perceived health status, and demographic backgrounds. P values of 0.05 or less were taken to indicate the statistical significance of two-tailed test results. The results are presented with 95% confidence intervals (CI).
Criterion-related validity was tested by seeking relationships between quality of life, perceived health status, and demographic backgrounds. P values of 0.05 or less were taken to indicate the statistical significance of two-tailed test results. The results are presented with 95% confidence intervals. This analysis included variables such as financial status (deficient, just enough, comfortable, very good) and educational level (0–6, 7–12, 13 + years), which have been positively associated with healthy lifestyles [8, 9]. Quality of life was measured by a Taiwanese version of the World Health Organization’s abbreviated Quality of life assessment (WHOQOL-BREF), which consists of 26 items in physical, psychological, social, and environmental domains [10]. A single question measured perceived health on a five-point scale (very poor, poor, fair, good, excellent).

Results

The initial CFA used a six-factor measurement model. It showed alignment with the original version of the HPLP II, excepting the factor loading of item 50 in the nutrition subscale (P = 0.122). This item was excluded from the second CFA, increasing the Cronbach’s α coefficient from 0.71 to 0.73. Since item 50 is insignificant and a reduced model shows better results, we, therefore, excluded this item and keep 51 items in the finalized model. The CFA of the revised 51-item HPLP II yielded a good estimate of fit (χ2 = 4.509, df = 5, P = 0.479, AGFI = 0.956, NFI = 0.991, RMSEA = 0.001). Correlations between the revised HPLP II and the six subscales ranged from 0.74 to 0.87. All factors were significantly loaded on their respective latent factors (0.674–0.846) (Table 2).
Table 2
The six-factor measurement model of the 51-item HPLPII (Standardized parameter estimates based on structural equation modeling)
Scale
Indicators
Factor loading (P-value)
Fit indices
χ2 (df, p)
AGFI
NFI
RMSEA
HPLP-II
Health responsibility
.823 (<.001***)
4.51 (5, .48)
.956
.991
<.001
51-item
Physical activity
.684 (<.001***)
Nutrition
.846 (<.001***)
Spiritual growth
.704 (<.001***)
Interpersonal relations
.674 (<.001***)
Stress management
.774 (<.001***)
Health responsibility
Item 3
.721a
20.53 (23, .61)
.943
.949
<.001
Item 9
.530 (<.001***)
Item 15
.695 (<.001***)
Item 21
.526 (<.001***)
Item 27
.662 (<.001***)
Item 33
.447 (<.001***)
Item 39
.687 (<.001***)
Item 45
.510 (<.001***)
Item 51
.572 (<.001***)
Physical activity
Item 4
.855a
14.07 (18, .72)
.949
.978
<.001
Item 10
.850 (<.001***)
Item 16
.835 (<.001***)
Item 22
.704 (<.001***)
Item 28
734 (<.001***)
Item 34
.762 (<.001***)
Item 40
.430 (<.001***)
Item 46
.683 (<.001***)
Nutrition
Item 2
.797a
17.46 (15, .29)
.927
.927
.035
Item 8
.750 (<.001***)
Item 14
.199 (<.05**)
Item 20
.192 (<.05**)
Item 26
.299 (<.05**)
Item 32
.246 (<.05**)
Item 38
.318 (<.001***)
Item 44
.598 (<.001***)
Spiritual growth
Item 6
.596a
27.66 (23, .23)
.917
.945
.039
Item 12
.714 (<.001***)
Item 18
.647 (<.001***)
Item 24
.683 (<.001***)
Item 30
.707 (<.001***)
Item 36
.777 (<.001***)
Item42
.730 (<.001***)
Item48
.549 (<.001***)
Item 52
.583 (<.001***)
Interpersonal relations
Item 1
.572a
15.28 (25, .94)
.956
.958
<.001
Item 7
.432 (<.001***)
Item 13
.565 (<.001***)
Item 19
.670 (<.001***)
Item 25
.645 (<.001***)
Item 31
.583 (<.001***)
Item 37
.713 (<.001***)
Item 43
.658 (<.001***)
Item 49
.582 (<.001***)
Stress management
Item 5
.412a
13.37 (16, .65)
.946
.963
<.001
Item 11
.622 (<.001***)
Item 17
.396 (<.01**)
Item 23
.518 (<.001***)
Item 29
.777 (<.001***)
Item 35
.561 (<.001***)
Item 41
.779 (<.001***)
Item 47
.729 (<.001***)
Fit indices included the likelihood-ratio chi-square (χ2), the adjusted goodness-of-fit index (AGFI), the normed fit index (NFI), and the root mean square error of approximation (RMSEA)
** < .01; *** P < .001
aReference group with factor loading set to 1.0 in the construct variance to fix the model
All Cronbach’s α values indicated the final instrument’s satisfactory internal consistency (total, 0.95; N, 0.73; PA, 0.91; HR, 0.84; SM, 0.81; IR 0.84; SG, 0.86). All 51 items showed a linear relationship to the corresponding subscales (item-scale correlations ≥0.4).
Criterion-related validity was indicated by significant correlations with concurrent measures of perceived health status and quality of life. The total instrument and perceived health showed a highly significant and fair relationship (r = 0.365, P < 0.001), as did the total instrument and WHOQOL-BREF domain scores (r = 0.359–0.558, P < 0.001). The relationships between the total instrument and financial status (r = 0.337, P < 0.001) and educational level (r = 0.203, P = 0.017) were significant and positive.

Discussion and conclusion

This study is to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Chinese HPLP II among Taiwanese women. The six-factor structure of the HPLP II produced by the CFA was consistent with the original HPLP II, excepting one item. This lack of correlation in the nutritional subscale may be due to the small sample size (n = 137). The correlations between the HPLP II, quality of life, and perceived health were similar to those of the original instrument [8]. The internal consistencies of the total HPLP II and its subscales were also similar to those demonstrated by the original version among older adults [4]. Furthermore, the positive relationships we found between the HPLP II, financial status, and educational level are consistent with the results of other studies [9, 11]. However, the correlation with educational level was relatively weak, which may indicate that this factor is not a good measure of healthy lifestyle among Taiwanese women. We thus suggest that future studies of the concurrent validity of the Chinese HPLP II include cognitive-perceptual factors, such as self-efficacy, that independently predict healthy lifestyles [12].
The study is limited by small sample size. However, two studies used Monte Carlo methods to suggest that the minimum subject-to-variables ratio of 5:1 may not be valid for factor analysis [13, 14]. Instead, good factor recovery may be obtained with a small sample size exhibiting high communalities of variables and overdetermination of factors (i.e., a high number of items: number of factors ratio). Barrett and Klines [15] found that a subsample of 112 could recover the original factor structure with 90 variables. MacCallum et al. [13] obtained 100% convergent recovery of population factor structure with a subsample of 60 and 20 variables, while mean communality reached 0.7 and the number-of-items-to-number-of-factors ratio was 20:3. In our study, over half of our sample (137 women, 51 variables) showed high communality (≥0.68). The model also had a reasonably high overdetermination of factors (number of items: number of factors = 51:6). We are thus confident that our sample size was sufficient to build the specified factor structure.
A recent paper by Teng et al. [6] validated a short-form translated Chinese version of the HPLP II among 331 Taiwanese participants recruited from outpatient departments. The health-promoting behaviors in Teng and colleagues’ study may deviate from those of the healthy population, because health status is a situational factor that impacts health-promoting lifestyle activities [16, 17]. Thus, the 52-item HPLP II scale has not been previously validated in a healthy Chinese-Taiwanese population. In addition, Teng et al. included male and female participants, whereas previous studies have documented gender specificity in adult preventive behaviors [18, 19]. Such gender differences may be related to the complication of women’s conceptions of health and healthy behaviors by social expectations, family relationships, life experiences, and menopause [20, 21]. Thus, it is not clear whether the short-form instrument applied among men and women by Teng et al. has been thoroughly validated for the potential gender differences in healthy behaviors. It therefore remains worthwhile to test the validity and reliability of a gender-specific instrument to measure women’s healthy behaviors. While the original HPLP II has been widely used to measure healthy women’s behavior in western society [22, 23], Chinese women have received little attention. It is therefore essential to validate a healthy lifestyle instrument that measures Chinese women’s healthy behavior, which will allow cross-cultural comparison with published results from other populations. From a cultural perspective, the validation of the questionnaire among Chinese women is important, because traditional filial culture requires them to focus on family life [24]; good wives and mothers are expected to provide direct care to older family members and to prepare nutritious and favored family meals. We thus believe that understanding lifestyle patterns among Taiwanese women may provide important information about health promotion needs in their families.
These considerations justify the development and validation of an appropriate questionnaire to examine Chinese women’s lifestyles beyond the findings of the larger study [6] using the same instrument in a general population. Our positive results for the reliability and validity of the Chinese HPLP II provide a foundation for further, larger-scale investigation of this instrument as a culturally appropriate tool to assess the healthy lifestyles of Taiwanese women. The 51-item instrument will be assessed in a larger survey of Chinese women in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China to further explore its properties.

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Metagegevens
Titel
Validation of the psychometric properties of the health-promoting lifestyle profile in a sample of Taiwanese women
Auteurs
Lo Meihan
Wong Chung-Ngok
Publicatiedatum
01-05-2011
Uitgeverij
Springer Netherlands
Gepubliceerd in
Quality of Life Research / Uitgave 4/2011
Print ISSN: 0962-9343
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-2649
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-010-9790-6

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