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Instruments and Measures for Health, Education, and Sport Research
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Instruments and Measures for Health, Education, and Sport Research

A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2024 | Viewed by 1960

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Fabio Alivernini

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Department of Social and Developmental Psychology, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, University of Roma “Sapienza”, 00185 Roma, Italy
Interests: psychometrics; structural equation modeling; methodology; mixed methods; motivation
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Dr. Federica Galli

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Department of Movement, Human and Health Sciences, University of Rome, Foro Italico, 00135 Rome, Italy
Interests: health psychology; sport psychology; multi-theory model; structural equation modeling; motivation
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Dr. Sara Manganelli

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Department of Social and Developmental Psychology, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, University of Roma “Sapienza”, 00185 Roma, Italy
Interests: psychometrics; multilevel analysis; structural equation modeling; motivation; civic engagement; well-being

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Effective instruments and measures are vital for research in the fields of health, education and sport. Many tools have been proposed in the literature, but in various cases, information is still lacking as regards their validity and reliability. Meanwhile, the need to develop brief and time-efficient measures has been on the rise in order to avoid putting excessive demands on respondents, along with all the associated effects on the economic viability of the research and on the quality of the data. Moreover, many of the existing instruments have only been validated in specific national contexts and it has been proven necessary to assess their psychometric properties in different linguistic and cultural settings. In many emerging research fields, it is also necessary to develop and validate self-report measures for investigating new constructs that have been proposed in the context of recent theoretical approaches. This Special Issue therefore calls for papers that are intended to remedy these gaps in health, education and sport research. Recommended topics include the following, but are not necessarily limited to these:

  • reports on advances in the knowledge of the psychometric properties of existing instruments;
  • development and validation of brief and/or time-efficient versions of existing measures;
  • investigation of the psychometric properties of scales and questionnaires in different national or linguistic contexts;
  • examination of the measurement invariance of scales across subpopulations (e.g., across genders or immigrant backgrounds);
  • systematic reviews/meta-analyses that bring together existing evidence on the validity and reliability of instruments in a specific domain;
  • development and validation of measures of novel constructs within emerging theoretical approaches;
  • development and validation of assessment tools based on text and content analysis (e.g., dictionaries and codebooks);
  • development and validation of observational protocols;
  • development and validation of new technologically based assessment tools (e.g., virtual reality, mobile apps).

You may choose our Joint Special Issue in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

Dr. Fabio Alivernini
Dr. Federica Galli
Dr. Sara Manganelli
Guest Editors

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Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Healthcare is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2700 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

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  • instruments
  • assessment
  • validation

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Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Validation of the Portuguese Version of the Multidimensional Scale of Dating Violence 2.0 in Young University Students
by Lorena Tarriño-Concejero, Dalila Cerejo, Socorro Arnedillo-Sánchez, Juan Manuel Praena-Fernández and María Ángeles García-Carpintero Muñoz
Healthcare 2024, 12(7), 759; https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare12070759 - 30 Mar 2024
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Background: Dating violence has become a problem of social relevance with short- and long-term health consequences. Nurses are in a privileged position to detect and address this problem in health facilities and as school nurses in schools, providing health education and detecting this [...] Read more.
Background: Dating violence has become a problem of social relevance with short- and long-term health consequences. Nurses are in a privileged position to detect and address this problem in health facilities and as school nurses in schools, providing health education and detecting this violence correctly. Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate the cross-cultural validation of the Portuguese version of the Multidimensional Scale of Dating Violence-Short (MSDV 2.0). Methods: A validation investigation was carried out in two phases: (1) cross-cultural adaptation of the items and content validation of the Portuguese version of MSDV 2.0 and (2) psychometric validation. Results: Phase (1): The items of the original version include a cross-cultural translation from Spanish to Portuguese and analysed by a group of experts in gender violence and by the authors of the original scale, then a back translation was made and again reviewed by the experts. Young university students also participated for face validity, and a pilot test was carried out. Phase (2): Confirmatory factor analysis was performed using the robust maximum-likelihood estimation method, which confirmed the five-dimensional structure, obtaining good fit rates (chi-square significance (χ2) = 187.860 (p < 0.0001); root mean square error of approximation (RMSEA) = 0.049; comparative fit index (CFI) = 0.937; Tucker–Lewis index (TLI) = 0.923). Reliability analysis indicated adequate internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha (α) = 0.88 to 0.70). Finally, scores of the Portuguese versions MSDV 2.0 were correlated, as expected, positively with the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale (DASS-21) (r = 0.36 to 0.16) and negatively with the Medical Outcomes Study Questionnaire Short Form 36, Health Survey (SF-36) (r = −0.30 to −0.14). Conclusions: To date, it is the only instrument that measures dating violence in a multidimensional way validated in the Portuguese university context. Full article
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Is the Behavioral Regulation in Exercise Questionnaire a Valid Measure in Older People?
by Tommaso Palombi, Fabio Lucidi, Andrea Chirico, Guido Alessandri, Lorenzo Filosa, Simone Tavolucci, Anna M. Borghi, Chiara Fini, Elisa Cavicchiolo, Jessica Pistella, Roberto Baiocco and Fabio Alivernini
Healthcare 2023, 11(20), 2707; https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11202707 - 10 Oct 2023
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Background: Despite the widely recognized benefits of physical activity for preventing physical and cognitive decline during aging, global estimates indicate that most older adults do not achieve the recommended amount of physical activity due to a lack of motivation. The current research examined [...] Read more.
Background: Despite the widely recognized benefits of physical activity for preventing physical and cognitive decline during aging, global estimates indicate that most older adults do not achieve the recommended amount of physical activity due to a lack of motivation. The current research examined the validity and psychometric properties of the Behavioral Regulation in Exercise Questionnaire (BREQ-3) among older adults. Based on Self-Determination Theory (SDT), the BREQ-3 stands out as one of the most extensively utilized tools among exercise motivation studies. Methods: A sample of older adults (N = 383; M age = 73.2 years, SD age = 7.2) completed the BREQ-3 and the Godin–Shepard Leisure-Time Physical Activity Questionnaire (GSLTPAQ). Results: Confirmatory factor analyses confirmed the six-factor structure postulated by SDT, showing good fit indices (CFI= 0.95; RMSEA = 0.05; SRMR = 0.04) and supporting the full measurement invariance of the scale across sex and age groups (65 to 74 years; over 75 years). The construct and criterion validity of the BREQ-3 was upheld through the latent correlations between its subscales and their correlations with the GSLTPAQ. Conclusions: We demonstrated for the first time the effectiveness of the BREQ-3 in assessing all forms of behavioral regulation proposed by SDT in older adults, suggesting that older adults similarly interpreted the items across sex and age groups. Full article
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