Studying Validity and Reliability of Persian Version of the questionnaire HUI3 in Iranian Old Folks
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Fateme Ardane1, Javad Ganjloo2*, Akram Ghanbari Moghadam3, Rahim Akrami4
Abstract
Background and objective: the incidence of the phenomenon of ageing in countries is one of the great changes in the 21st century. With these changes in the age pyramid of the population of the world the great challenges have been created for these countries in the field of health; the diseases have been oriented to chronic diseases and disabilities. Accordingly, to determine priorities and more effective macro policies, we must have a broad and comprehensive assessment of our society with a preventative approach. In this study, we have examined the validity and reliability of the tool HUI3 to assess the status of the Iranians old folk group.
Working procedure: this study was descriptive-analytic. 400 old folks over 60 years were selected by the method of "classified sampling" from 6 Health Centers and two nursing homes in Sabzevar of Iran, between April and July 2017 and were participated in study to determine the validity and reliability of the tool. The data were collected by the use of the demographic information questionnaires of SF-36 and HUI3 through interview. To determine the validity of the tool the content validity indicator and the concurrent criterion-based validity were used, and to determine reliability the method of determining internal stability along with reporting the number of Cronbach's Alpha and the method of Inter Rater Reliability with reporting intra class correlation coefficient. Data were analyzed using the software SPSS-v24.
Findings: the tool calculated CVI was 0.82 for the entire items of the tool. The coefficient of correlation between the tool HUI3 and the SF-36 was 0.87 as a criterion. The intra class correlation coefficient done by different implementers was 0.93 and Cronbach's Alpha for the entire items was 0.80.
Conclusion: reliability and validity of HUI3 questionnaire of Persian version is proper and acceptable; so this questionnaire can be used to check the health status of the Iranians old folk
