Psychometric Properties of a Scale Measuring Patients’ Perceptions Regarding Physical Activity Counseling by Physicians

Abstract

This study developed a scale measuring patients’ perceptions regarding physical activity (PA) counseling by physicians. Confirmatory factor analysis and multiple linear regression analysis were used to assess psychometric properties. The first factor extracted was “PA recommendation,” which accounted for a variance of 45.1% out of total variance of 76.3% and comprises 5 items. The final scale yielded satisfactory psychometric properties including internal consistency (Cronbach’s α = 0.75), convergent validity, discriminant validity, and predictive validity. Nine (9) items that makeup two factors (i.e., PA recommendation and follow-up) are potential measures of patients’ perceptions regarding PA counseling by physicians in healthcare.

Keywords:

• Physical activity
• PA counseling
• psychometric properties
• quality care
• physicians

Acknowledgement

We thank Mr. Richard Eduafo for coordinating data collection.

Ethical Approval

This study received ethical clearance from an institutional ethics committee (ACE-EPP2019). All participants consented to participate in this study by signing an informed consent form approved by research ethics committee.

Competing Interests

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Funding

Funding was not received for this manuscript.

Authors’ Contribution

NA conceived the research idea, analyzed the data, and wrote the original manuscript. KA reviewed the literature with NA and edited the manuscript. ED supervised data collection, coding, and entry. FKSF and EA conducted literature. All authors proofread the draft manuscript.