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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Public Health Education and Promotion
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1423923
This article is part of the Research Topic The Role of Nursing in Public Health Promotion and Education View all 29 articles
Translation and Psychometric evaluation of Self-care of Hypertension Inventory Version 3.0 (SC-HI v3.0) in Iranian population Running Head: Psychometric properties of Self-care of Hypertension Inventory
Provisionally accepted- 1 Gonabad University of Medical Sciences, Gonābād, Iran
- 2 Faculty of Nursing, Gonabad University of Medical Sciences, Gonabad, Razavi Khorasan, Iran
Introduction: Self-care is a key element of hypertension control. This study was carried out with the purpose of translating and investigating the psychometric features of the Persian version of Self-care of Hypertension Inventory Version 3.0 (SC-HI v3.0) in Iranian hypertensive population. Methods: This cross-sectional study was carried out in 593 people with hypertension in 2023 in Gonabad city (Iran). The participants were included by stratified random sampling from the community health centers of Gonabad city. The translation of the scale was done according to the multi-stage guideline of the instrument developers. The validity of the SC-HI v3.0 was examined by qualitative face validity, qualitative and quantitative content validity and structure validity assessed by confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). The reliability of the SC-HI v3.0 was also evaluated by calculating intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) and Cronbach's alpha coefficient. Data analysis was done using Amos software version 24 and SPSS software version 25.Results: In the translation process, face validity, and content validity evaluation, almost all the items of SC-HI v3.0 were partially revised without changing the main concept. In the structure validity evaluation, the results of CFA confirmed the Persian version of SC-HI v3.0 with 21 items and including three scales of maintenance with two factors (7 items), monitoring with one factor (7 items), and management with one factor (7 items). Finally, in reliability evaluation, Cronbach's alpha coefficient and ICC were 0.879 and 0.842, respectively.Considering the lack of a comprehensive and brief tool for measuring hypertension self-care in Iran, the Persian version of the SC-HI v3.0 with 21 items and 3 scales, can be a valid and reliable inventory for self-care evaluation in Iranian hypertensive patients.
Keywords: Psychometric, validity, self-care, high blood pressure, Reliability, Hypertension, Iran Psychometric, Iran
Received: 26 Apr 2024; Accepted: 03 Mar 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Naddafi, Jafari, Hosseinzadeh Younesi and Sajjadi. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Moosa Sajjadi, Faculty of Nursing, Gonabad University of Medical Sciences, Gonabad, Razavi Khorasan, Iran
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