Instrument development and validation for use in a health education program

This study was conducted to establish the validity and reliability of a dependent measure instrument developed specifically for health education programs geared to expectant mothers and their significant others who smoke; This study's instrument was distributed to 201 randomly chosen college students participating in health education, general education, educational psychology, and communication studies classes at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Results from this study found that the instrument has merit. The confirmatory factor analysis, which proved the instrument's reliability, isolated three different areas of study: beliefs about smoking in general; the effects of smoking on pre- and post-natal babies; and why smokers hesitate to quit smoKing Its factorial validity was supported by three steps taken to establish it: the use of focus groups; the information gained from the large sample of randomly selected students; and the factor analysis used to establish its construct validity.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts (MA)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Communication Studies

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Year

1998

Author dc:creator

• Blockey, Joanna Lynn

Contributors dc:contributor

• Anthony Ferri

Statement dc:rights

• IN COPYRIGHT. For more information about this rights statement, please visit http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Identifier

https://oasis.library.unlv.edu/rtds/899

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:oasis.library.unlv.edu:rtds-1898