Validity and reliability of a healthy lifestyle questionnaire in university students: Validez y fiabilidad de un cuestionario de estilo de vida saludable en estudiantes universitarios

• Autores: Santiago-Bazan, Cristhian, Carcausto, Wilfredo
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2019
• Institución: Universidad de Ciencias y Humanidades
• Repositorio: Health care & global health
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.openhgh.org:article/33
• Enlace del recurso: http://revista.uch.edu.pe/index.php/hgh/article/view/33
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Estilos de vida saludable; validación; estudiantes; Ciencias de la salud; Perú

Objective: Determine the validity and reliability of the questionnaire to identify healthy lifestyle in students of a Peruvian university. Materials and Methods: cross-sectional descriptive study. The sample was of 449 university students. Four dimensions were considered: Physical-mental health (Consumption of healthy eating, physical activity, mental), social (personal relationships, recreational and recreational activities), ethical-moral (attitude towards norms, solidarity among the group, tolerance in competitiveness) and academic-family. Results: The validity of content was determined from the criterion of judges, using the coefficient of agreement W of Kendall was obtained: clarity (0, 78); coherence (0, 70); relevance (0, 76); Sufficiency (0, 71). The reliability of the instrument according to Cronbach's alpha was 0, 81. Conclusion: The healthy lifestyle questionnaire has an acceptable level of internal consistency and a coherence of organization of questions by dimension Keywords: healthy lifestyle; validation studies; survey; questionnaire; Peru (Fuente: DeCS, BIREME).