Development of the Active Ageing Awareness Questionnaire in Malaysia
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Content Validation
2.2. Linguistic Validation
2.3. Face Validation
2.4. Psychometric Assessment
2.5. Data Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Characteristics of the Participants
3.2. Reliability Analysis
3.3. Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA)
3.4. Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA)
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Characteristic | Pilot Test (n = 110) | Test-Retest (n = 81) | EFA/CFA (n = 404) | |||
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n | % | n | % | n | % | |
Age (Years ± SD) | 50.19 ± 5.52 | 49.4 ± 5.7 | 49.9 ± 5.8 | |||
Gender: | ||||||
Male | 72 | 65.5 | 47 | 58.0 | 208 | 51.5 |
Female | 38 | 34.5 | 34 | 42.0 | 196 | 48.5 |
Ethnicity: | ||||||
Malay | 93 | 84.5 | 73 | 90.1 | 372 | 92.5 |
Chinese | 9 | 8.2 | 5 | 6.2 | 18 | 4.5 |
Indian | 8 | 7.3 | 3 | 3.7 | 12 | 3.0 |
Health Construct | Participation Construct | Security Construct | ||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | |
3 | - | 0.552 | 0.432 | 0.452 | 0.396 | 0.493 | 0.381 | 0.315 | 0.323 | 0.326 | 0.288 | |||||||||||
4 | 0.552 | - | 0.317 | 0.203 | 0.226 | 0.236 | 0.070 | 0.095 | 0.258 | 0.181 | 0.033 | |||||||||||
5 | 0.432 | 0.317 | - | 0.316 | 0.570 | 0.377 | 0.341 | 0.382 | 0.337 | 0.379 | 0.372 | |||||||||||
6 | 0.452 | 0.203 | 0.316 | - | 0.501 | 0.811 | 0.580 | 0.418 | 0.512 | 0.442 | 0.389 | |||||||||||
7 | 0.396 | 0.226 | 0.570 | 0.501 | - | 0.578 | 0.575 | 0.397 | 0.326 | 0.280 | 0.346 | |||||||||||
8 | 0.493 | 0.236 | 0.377 | 0.811 | 0.578 | - | 0.588 | 0.491 | 0.660 | 0.619 | 0.435 | |||||||||||
9 | 0.381 | 0.070 | 0.341 | 0.580 | 0.575 | 0.588 | - | 0.612 | 0.516 | 0.407 | 0.553 | |||||||||||
10 | 0.315 | 0.095 | 0.382 | 0.418 | 0.397 | 0.491 | 0.612 | - | 0.550 | 0.557 | 0.594 | |||||||||||
11 | 0.323 | 0.258 | 0.337 | 0.512 | 0.326 | 0.660 | 0.516 | 0.550 | - | 0.867 | 0.610 | |||||||||||
12 | 0.326 | 0.181 | 0.379 | 0.442 | 0.280 | 0.619 | 0.407 | 0.557 | 0.867 | - | 0.708 | |||||||||||
13 | 0.288 | 0.033 | 0.372 | 0.389 | 0.346 | 0.435 | 0.553 | 0.594 | 0.610 | 0.708 | - | |||||||||||
14 | - | 0.286 | 0.162 | 0.387 | 0.220 | 0.215 | 0.208 | |||||||||||||||
15 | 0.286 | - | 0.566 | 0.569 | 0.149 | 0.570 | 0.515 | |||||||||||||||
16 | 0.162 | 0.566 | - | 0.520 | 0.214 | 0.625 | 0.558 | |||||||||||||||
17 | 0.387 | 0.569 | 0.520 | - | 0.410 | 0.588 | 0.453 | |||||||||||||||
18 | 0.220 | 0.149 | 0.214 | 0.410 | - | 0.179 | 0.045 | |||||||||||||||
19 | 0.215 | 0.570 | 0.625 | 0.588 | 0.179 | - | 0.804 | |||||||||||||||
20 | 0.208 | 0.515 | 0.558 | 0.453 | 0.045 | 0.804 | - | |||||||||||||||
21 | - | 0.670 | 0.720 | 0.661 | ||||||||||||||||||
22 | 0.670 | - | 0.891 | 0.843 | ||||||||||||||||||
23 | 0.720 | 0.891 | - | 0.920 | ||||||||||||||||||
24 | 0.661 | 0.843 | 0.920 | - |
Dimension | Item | ICC | 95% CI | p-Value |
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Health | A3 | 0.634 | 0.337–0.787 | <0.001 |
A4 | 0.628 | 0.424–0.760 | <0.001 | |
A5 | 0.696 | 0.523–0.806 | <0.001 | |
A6 | 0.486 | 0.209–0.667 | <0.001 | |
A7 | 0.788 | 0.671–0.864 | <0.001 | |
A8 | 0.624 | 0.414–0.758 | <0.001 | |
A9 | 0.722 | 0.567–0.821 | <0.001 | |
A10 | 0.712 | 0.554–0.814 | <0.001 | |
A11 | 0.690 | 0.517–0.801 | <0.001 | |
A12 | 0.584 | 0.351–0.733 | <0.001 | |
A13 | 0.677 | 0.501–0.792 | <0.001 | |
Participation | A14 | 0.751 | 0.606–0.842 | < 0.001 |
A15 | 0.629 | 0.421–0.761 | < 0.001 | |
A16 | 0.737 | 0.590–0.831 | < 0.001 | |
A17 | 0.739 | 0.593–0.832 | < 0.001 | |
A18 | 0.754 | 0.619–0.842 | < 0.001 | |
A19 | 0.728 | 0.575–0.825 | < 0.001 | |
A20 | 0.608 | 0.397–0.747 | < 0.001 | |
Security | A21 | 0.540 | 0.291–0.702 | < 0.001 |
A22 | 0.787 | 0.670–0.863 | < 0.001 | |
A23 | 0.691 | 0.520–0.801 | < 0.001 | |
A24 | 0.699 | 0.531–0.807 | < 0.001 |
Item | Factor 1 | Item | Factor 2 |
---|---|---|---|
A3 | 0.586 | A14 | 0.340 |
A4 | 0.239 | A15 | 0.498 |
A5 | 0.601 | A16 | 0.687 |
A6 | 0.779 | A17 | 0.417 |
A7 | 0.654 | A18 | 0.064 |
A8 | 0.882 | A19 | 0.742 |
A9 | 0.821 | A20 | 0.742 |
A10 | 0.738 | A21 | 0.825 |
A11 | 0.886 | A22 | 0.923 |
A12 | 0.867 | A23 | 0.974 |
A13 | 0.754 | A24 | 0.956 |
Model | CMIN/DF | GFI | AGFI | TLI | CFI | RMSEA |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
<3 | >0.9 | >0.9 | >0.9 | >0.9 | <0.08 | |
1 | 4.448 | 0.772 | 0.717 | 0.853 | 0.870 | 0.107 |
2 | 5.362 | 0.750 | 0.676 | 0.840 | 0.861 | 0.131 |
3 | 3.150 | 0.884 | 0.833 | 0.922 | 0.938 | 0.092 |
4 | 2.771 | 0.903 | 0.859 | 0.951 | 0.938 | 0.082 |
Construct | Item | Factor Loading | Cronbach’s Alpha (≥0.7) | CR (≥0.6) | AVE (≥0.5) | Health Construct | Non-Health Construct |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Health | 3 | 0.55 | 0.92 | 0.91 | 0.56 | 0.75 | - |
5 | 0.59 | ||||||
6 | 0.77 | ||||||
8 | 0.87 | ||||||
9 | 0.84 | ||||||
10 | 0.75 | ||||||
11 | 0.86 | ||||||
13 | 0.74 | ||||||
Non-health | 15 | 0.63 | 0.91 | 0.89 | 0.58 | 0.86 | 0.76 |
16 | 0.76 | ||||||
19 | 0.82 | ||||||
20 | 0.81 | ||||||
21 | 0.73 | ||||||
22 | 0.82 |
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Ahmad Bahuri, N.H.; Rizal, H.; Abdul Majid, H.; Said, M.A.; Su, T.T. Development of the Active Ageing Awareness Questionnaire in Malaysia. Healthcare 2021, 9, 499. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9050499
Ahmad Bahuri NH, Rizal H, Abdul Majid H, Said MA, Su TT. Development of the Active Ageing Awareness Questionnaire in Malaysia. Healthcare. 2021; 9(5):499. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9050499
Chicago/Turabian StyleAhmad Bahuri, Nor Hana, Hussein Rizal, Hazreen Abdul Majid, Mas Ayu Said, and Tin Tin Su. 2021. "Development of the Active Ageing Awareness Questionnaire in Malaysia" Healthcare 9, no. 5: 499. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9050499
APA StyleAhmad Bahuri, N. H., Rizal, H., Abdul Majid, H., Said, M. A., & Su, T. T. (2021). Development of the Active Ageing Awareness Questionnaire in Malaysia. Healthcare, 9(5), 499. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9050499