Abstract
Background: Suboptimal Health Status Questionnaire-25 (SHSQ-25) is an established tool for measuring a precision health state between health and illness. The present study aims to assess the validity and reliability of a Persian version of SHSQ-25 (P-SHSQ-25) in a university staff Iranian population. Methods: A sample of 316 academic and supporting staff (163 males, age range from 23 to 64 years old) from Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran was recruited in this population-based cross-sectional study with a questionnaire validation from Apri1 to October 2022. Forward-backward translation method was performed for the SHSQ-25 translation from English to Persian. Internal reliability, content, convergence, discriminative and construct validity of the P-SHSQ-25 were examined. The factorial structure of the P-SHSQ-25 across groups was examined using measurement invariant test. Results: In the translation process, the conceptual equivalence of the P-SHSQ-25 with the English version was confirmed. The item-content validity index and content validity ratio of all P-SHSQ-25 items were higher than the cut-off values of 0.70 and 0.62, respectively. Cronbach's was higher than 0.70 for all P-SHSQ-25 domains. The confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) showed the fitness of five factors on the data set (comparative fit index = 0.88, and root mean square error of approximation = 0.07). The CFA model fit did not change substantially across sex, age, occupation, economic status, and body mass index ( comparative fit index (CFI) < 0.01). Conclusions: The P-SHSQ-25 can be used as a reliable and valid tool to measure health status for screening pre-chronic disease conditions in a primary care setting among Iranian population.
Keywords
validity, reliability, Persian version of the suboptimal health status questionnaire, university staff, Iran, suboptimal health status questionnaire
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of Publication
12-15-2023
Volume
13
PubMed ID
38098436
Publication Title
Journal of Global Health
Publisher
International Society of Global Health
School
School of Medical and Health Sciences / Centre for Precision Health
RAS ID
62408
Funders
Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran / National High Technology Research and Development Program of China
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
First Page
04162
Comments
Ayybi, E., Khazaei, S., Borzouei, S., Soltanian, A. R., Ghelichkhani, S., Karbin, F., . . . Wang, W. (2023). Validity and reliability of the Persian version of the suboptimal health status questionnaire among university staff in Iran. Journal of Global Health, 13, article 04162. https://doi.org/10.7189/jogh.13.04162