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VALIDITY AND RELIABILITY OF THE FALL-RELATED HEALTH BELIEF SCALE TO MEASURE FALL PREVENTION ATTITUDES OF VIETNAMESE ELDERLY PEOPLE
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Objective: Translate in to Vietnamese and evaluate the validity and reliability of the fall-related health belief scale to measure fall prevention attitudes of Vietnamese elderly people. Method: This study was conducted on 330 elderly people from January 2022 to May 2022 in Tan Phong commune, Vu Thu district, Thai Binh province. Translated by reverse translation and tested on 30 elderly people to adjust the translation. Evaluating the validity of the content with the opinions of 5 experts. Reliability was measured by Cronbach's alpha coefficient in 300 elderly people, the test was repeated a second time on 90 elderly people over two weeks. Intra-Class Correlation index (ICC) was used to measure test-retest reliability to find out the correlation between the first assessment score and the second assessment score. Results: The Vietnamese version of the fall-related health belief scale showed good content validity, with I-CVI, and S-CVI scores for all 26 items being 1. Internal consistency with index Cronbach's alpha of the 7 domains ranges from 0.72 to 0.89, the whole scale being 0.95. Test–retest reliability ICC ranging from 0.87-0.99 (p-value<0.001) was determined with good results. Conclusion: The Vietnamese version of the falls-related health beliefs scale can be considered a valid and highly reliable tool to measure fall prevention attitudes of Vietnamese elderly people.
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