Open AccessDevelopment of an Attribution of Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities Scale
Author(s) -
James H. Price,
Robert E. Braun,
Jagdish Khubchandani,
Erica Payton,
Prasun Bhattacharjee
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of community health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1573-3610
pISSN - 0094-5145
DOI - 10.1007/s10900-014-9833-y
Subject(s) - ethnic group , attribution , scale (ratio) , health equity , medicine , environmental health , gerontology , psychology , geography , sociology , social psychology , public health , nursing , anthropology , cartography
The purpose of this study was to develop an Attribution of Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities (AREHD) scale. A convenience sample of undergraduate college students (n = 423) at four Midwestern universities was recruited to respond to the survey. A pilot test with undergraduate students (n = 23) found the survey had good acceptability and readability level (SMOG = 11th grade). Using exploratory factor analysis we found the two a priori subscales were confirmed: individual responsibility and social determinants. Internal reliabilities of the subscales were: individual responsibility (alpha = 0.87) and social determinants (alpha = 0.90). Test-retest stability reliabilities were: individual responsibility (r = 0.72) and social determinants (r = 0.69). The AREHD subscales are satisfactory for assessing college student's AREHD.
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