The validity of the Health Locus of Control Questionnaire (HLOCQ; Lau and Ware 1981) was considered in the context of a study of health belief and behaviour in 415 undergraduate students of the University of Malawi on the occasion of their enrolment health check-up. Internal consistency of ...
Three questionnaires were applied for data collection: a questionnaire on demographic and stoma-related data; the Scale for Health Locus of Control; the Herth Hope Scale, and the Self-rating Scale for Spirituality. Results: Most ostomized subjects were women aged over 61 years, married and ...
Morisky for giving us permission to use the Morisky Medication Adherence Scale To explore caregivers' Health Locus of Control's relationship to self-reported adherence to penicillin prophylaxis or hydroxyurea in children with sickle cell disease (SCD). A questionnaire-based study was conducted of ...
Methods: Visual analog scale for pain intensity, Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) for disability level, and Multidimensional Health Locus of Control questionnaire for health control of individuals over his/her own health was used. Postural control during static and dynamic balance was evaluated by ...
We assessed the reliability and validity of the Multidimensional Health Locus of Control Scale (MHLC scale) in a rural Japanese community. The study subjects were 2388 men and 2454 women aged 40-79 years, who completed a questionnaire regarding socio-demographics, health-related behavior, such as...
To date, concepts such as self-efficacy, self-control and empowerment are assessed by tools that only partially address daily lifestyle choices. The aim of this study is to validate a novel measurement tool, the Healthy Lifestyle and Personal Control Questionnaire (HLPCQ), which aims to assess...
‘Health Locus of Control’ measure from the same source (Table6). Measures used to evaluate knowledge gain and differences in self-efficacy were validated prior to their use in most studies reporting these outcomes. There was less certainty over the reliability of instruments used to measure ...
of nine items (GKÜ) [39], while the questionnaire to assess health related control beliefs assumed a bipolar construct of HLOC (Externality versus Internality; FEGK) [40]. However, the KKG assumed the original three HLOC dimensions Internality, POs and Chance with seven items per scale. ...
to August 2010, completed the following five research questionnaires: demographic information questions, patient – doctor relationship questionnaire(PDRQ-19), General Aherence to therapy Scale(GAS), Prospective and retrospective memory questionnaire(PRMQ), and Multidimensional health locus of control(MHLC)...
The Multidimensional Health Locus of Control (MHLC, form B) questionnaire was used in the present study to measure health-related control beliefs.33 The MHLC consists of three scales: IHLC, PHLC, and CHLC. Each scale consists of six items rated on a six-point Likert-type scale (ranging fro...