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Raiisi F. Designing, Constructing, and Evaluating Psychometric Characteristics of Metaphorical Health Literacy Questionnaire. Health Educ Health Promot 2025; 13 (1) :1001-1032
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Cognitive science of language department, Institute of Cognitive Science Studies, Tehran, Iran. , elhamaraiisi@gmail.com
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Aims: Metaphorically measuring health literacy can help to understand metaphorical concepts in health field. Therefore, the purpose of the present study is to design, construct, and evaluate the psychometric characteristics of metaphorical health literacy.
Methods: The method used in the present research was descriptive of the type of survey and psychometric studies. For this purpose, based on the four areas of knowledge, services, strategies, and interventions of the content analysis study of Raiisi's health literacy metaphors (2024), 15 Likert questions were designed for the more common source domains of object, force, and product. The content validity of the questionnaire was checked by three cognitive linguists, two health psychologists, two health experts, two physicians, and one psychometric expert. Finally, the questionnaire was completed voluntarily by 150 Persian-speaking University students in Tehran in 2024. The data was analyzed for statistical analysis through SPSS-26 and AMOS-14 software was used for modeling.
Findings: The results of exploratory factor analysis indicated four factors (object, force, product, and human) explain 38.21% of the total variance of the questionnaire. The reliability of the questionnaire was obtained by Cronbach's alpha method for the whole questionnaire at 0.79, which indicates the high reliability of this questionnaire. Further, confirmatory factor analysis was used to check the factorial validity of the questionnaire, which showed the appropriate fit of the model to determine the factors.
Conclusion: It seems that the metaphorical health literacy questionnaire for Persian speakers has good validity and reliability.
Methods: The method used in the present research was descriptive of the type of survey and psychometric studies. For this purpose, based on the four areas of knowledge, services, strategies, and interventions of the content analysis study of Raiisi's health literacy metaphors (2024), 15 Likert questions were designed for the more common source domains of object, force, and product. The content validity of the questionnaire was checked by three cognitive linguists, two health psychologists, two health experts, two physicians, and one psychometric expert. Finally, the questionnaire was completed voluntarily by 150 Persian-speaking University students in Tehran in 2024. The data was analyzed for statistical analysis through SPSS-26 and AMOS-14 software was used for modeling.
Findings: The results of exploratory factor analysis indicated four factors (object, force, product, and human) explain 38.21% of the total variance of the questionnaire. The reliability of the questionnaire was obtained by Cronbach's alpha method for the whole questionnaire at 0.79, which indicates the high reliability of this questionnaire. Further, confirmatory factor analysis was used to check the factorial validity of the questionnaire, which showed the appropriate fit of the model to determine the factors.
Conclusion: It seems that the metaphorical health literacy questionnaire for Persian speakers has good validity and reliability.
Keywords: Metaphorical Health Literacy Questionnaire, Psychometric Characteristics, Health Literacy, Conceptual Metaphors.
Article Type: Original Research |
Subject:
Health Literacy
Received: 2025/04/2 | Accepted: 2025/04/19 | Published: 2025/01/21
Received: 2025/04/2 | Accepted: 2025/04/19 | Published: 2025/01/21
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