Back to Annual Meeting Page		American Public Health Association 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA

Abstract #118265

Huey-Shys Chen, PhD, CHES, RN, School of Nursing, University of Central Florida, 4000 Central Florida Blvd. HPA 228, PO Box 162210, Orlando, FL 32816-2210, 407-8232863, chuey@mail.ucf.edu and Jiunn-Jye Sheu, MSPH, PhD, CHES, Department of Health Education and Behavior, University of Florida, FLG 5, Stadium Road, PO Box 118210, Gainesville, FL 32611-8210.

Cigarette smoking is a major health-risk behavior world-wide and is highly prevalent among adolescents in Taiwan.Earlier onset of cigarette smoking leads to more life-years to use tobacco, which contributes to an increase in the risk for a range of serious health consequences.

Objectives: To examine the psychometric properties of the short version of the Smoking Self-Efficacy Survey (SVSSES). Design and Methods: The short version of the Smoking Self-Efficacy Survey (SVSSES) was administered to 571 adolescents aged 13 to 17 years who were recruited from two junior high schools in Taipei. A random cluster sampling method was used in this study.

Findings: Reliability was supported by Cronbach's alpha coefficient, 0.97. The concurrent validity of the SSE scale was supported by high correlation between scores from the original scale and the short version of the scale (r = 0.99). Principle component analysis procedure was applied to determine the construct validity of the SVSSES. Three distinct components emerged accounting for 74.32% of the total variance with alpha of 0.96. The correlation coefficient between the SSE scale and revised SSE scale is 0.99. The construct validity using comparison groups approach was supported by significant differences in the SVSSES total scores among three different smoking groups (p<0.001).

Conclusions- It supported that the short version of the Smoking Self-Efficacy Survey was reliable and valid as the original scale. However, for a newly developed scale further research will be needed to validate the SVSSES with different populations and settings.

Learning Objectives:

• The audience will be able to gain knowledge of instrument development across different cultures;
• The audience will be able to know how to validate a translated intrument by using different statistic approaches.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

I wish to disclose that I have NO financial interests or other relationship with the manufactures of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services or commercial supporters.