Improvement of General Disaster Preparedness Belief Scale Based on Health Belief Model

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dc.contributor.authorInal, Ebru
dc.contributor.authorDogan, Nuri
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-27T21:13:18Z
dc.date.available2025-01-27T21:13:18Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.departmentÇanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractIntroduction: The Health Belief Model (HBM) can be used as a guide in enhancing the peoples' awareness, improving the motivation, and providing tools that address beliefs and attitudes toward general disaster preparedness (GDP). Methods: The aim of this study was to improve and re-test all psychometric properties of the published General Disaster Preparedness Belief (GDPB) scale based on HBM carried out in the general population. This scale development study measured by 58 items was prepared under the same structure of the developed GDPB scale that measured 31 items before. This expanded scale was applied to 973 individuals. Firstly, the data from application of the expanded scale was examined under Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA). Then, the estimations obtained from Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) for the expanded scale with 45 items were compared with the estimations obtained from the previous scale with 31 items. Results: The EFA lead to the removal of 13 items and the retention of 45 items. The items which the factor loadings were below 0.30 and which gave the factor loadings for more dimension were excluded from the data set. A model measured six dimensions with 45 items was hypothesized: six items under perceived susceptibility, four items under perceived severity, six items under perceived benefits, 14 items under perceived barriers, five items under cues to action, and 10 items under self-efficacy. For CFA results, all estimations for factor loadings were significant. The scale with 45 items obtained in this study fit because Comparative Fit Index (CFI), Goodness of Fit Index (GFI), and Adjusted Goodness of Fit Index (AGFI) were over 0.95. Conclusion: These results suggest that the scale with 45 items shows improvement in the scale with 31 items. This study indicates that the GDPB scale with 45 items based on HBM has acceptable validity and reliability. This tool can be used in disaster preparedness surveys.
dc.description.sponsorshipResearch Fund of the Yalova University (Yalova, Turkey) [2015/BAP/125]
dc.description.sponsorshipThis study (Project Number: 2015/BAP/125) was supported by Research Fund of the Yalova University (Yalova, Turkey).
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/S1049023X18001012
dc.identifier.endpage636
dc.identifier.issn1049-023X
dc.identifier.issn1945-1938
dc.identifier.issue6
dc.identifier.pmid30415647
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85056579157
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1
dc.identifier.startpage627
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1017/S1049023X18001012
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12428/28370
dc.identifier.volume33
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000454206200011
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ3
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.indekslendigikaynakPubMed
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherCambridge Univ Press
dc.relation.ispartofPrehospital and Disaster Medicine
dc.relation.publicationcategoryinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.snmzKA_WoS_20250125
dc.subjectdisaster
dc.subjecthealth belief model
dc.subjectimprovement
dc.subjectpreparedness
dc.subjectscale
dc.titleImprovement of General Disaster Preparedness Belief Scale Based on Health Belief Model
dc.typeArticle

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