Psychometric properties of a mental health literacy questionnaire for university students in Indonesia

IF 2.4 Q3 PHARMACOLOGY & PHARMACY

Pharmacy Practice-Granada Pub Date : 2023-06-30 DOI:10.18549/pharmpract.2023.2.2807

Prasojo Pribadi, S. A. Kristina, M. Farrukh

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Abstract

Background: Mental health literacy is necessary for early recognition and intervention of mental disorders. Its multifaceted structure provides useful perspectives for developing a tool to assess mental health literacy. Objective: This study aimed to adapt the Mental Health Literacy Questionnaire (MHLq) designed to observe mental health literacy among university students and to test its construct validity and internal consistency. The impact of a sociodemographic variable on mental health literacy score was also explored. Methods: A number of 650 university students participated in this study. The questionnaire items were adapted using a backward forward translation. An exploratory factor analysis was conducted to examine the construct validity. Internal consistency of the questionnaire was tested using Cronbach’s Alpha. Results: The results showed that the MHLq modified version possessed good validity and reliability (total scale α=0.821) that may be used as a screening tool by mental health professionals and researchers to identify intervention needs among university students. Conclusions: This study also found that individuals who identified knowing someone with a mental health problem performed better on the MHLq global score and three-dimensional factors than those who did not. Future studies are needed to further develop and adapt the questionnaire to reach different target-populations.

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印尼大学生心理健康素养问卷的心理测量学特征

背景:心理健康素养是早期识别和干预精神障碍的必要条件。它的多面结构为开发评估心理健康素养的工具提供了有用的视角。目的:采用心理健康素养问卷(MHLq)对大学生心理健康素养进行观察，并对问卷的结构效度和内部一致性进行检验。社会人口学变量对心理健康素养得分的影响也进行了探讨。方法:对650名大学生进行问卷调查。调查问卷的条目采用了倒译法。采用探索性因子分析检验构念效度。采用Cronbach’s Alpha检验问卷的内部一致性。结果:MHLq修正版具有良好的效度和信度(总量表α=0.821)，可作为心理卫生专业人员和研究人员识别大学生干预需求的筛选工具。结论:这项研究还发现，那些认识有精神健康问题的人在MHLq总体得分和三维因素上的表现比那些没有认识的人更好。未来的研究需要进一步发展和调整问卷，以达到不同的目标人群。

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Pharmacy Practice-Granada PHARMACOLOGY & PHARMACY-

CiteScore

3.90

自引率

4.00%

发文量

113

审稿时长

20 weeks

期刊介绍： Pharmacy Practice is a free full-text peer-reviewed journal with a scope on pharmacy practice. Pharmacy Practice is published quarterly. Pharmacy Practice does not charge and will never charge any publication fee or article processing charge (APC) to the authors. The current and future absence of any article processing charges (APCs) is signed in the MoU with the Center for Pharmacy Practice Innovation (CPPI) at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) School of Pharmacy. Pharmacy Practice is the consequence of the efforts of a number of colleagues from different Universities who belief in collaborative publishing: no one pays, no one receives. Although focusing on the practice of pharmacy, Pharmacy Practice covers a wide range of pharmacy activities, among them and not being comprehensive, clinical pharmacy, pharmaceutical care, social pharmacy, pharmacy education, process and outcome research, health promotion and education, health informatics, pharmacoepidemiology, etc.