Development of an attribution of racial/ethnic health disparities scale.
The purpose of this study was to develop an Attribution of Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities (AREHD) scale. A convenience sample of undergraduate college students (n = 423) at four Midwestern universities was recruited to respond to the survey. A pilot test with undergraduate students (n = 23) found the survey had good acceptability and readability level (SMOG = 11th grade). Using exploratory factor analysis we found the two a priori subscales were confirmed: individual responsibility and social determinants. Internal reliabilities of the subscales were: individual responsibility (alpha = 0.87) and social determinants (alpha = 0.90). Test-retest stability reliabilities were: individual responsibility (r = 0.72) and social determinants (r = 0.69). The AREHD subscales are satisfactory for assessing college student's AREHD.
Department of Health and Recreation Professions, University of Toledo, 2801 W. Bancroft, Toledo, OH, 43606, USA, jprice@utnet.utoledo.edu.
James H
JH
Price
Robert E
RE
Braun
Jagdish
J
Khubchandani
Erica
E
Payton
Prasun
P
Bhattacharjee
D001294:Attitude to Health; D005260:Female; D054624:Health Status Disparities; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015146:Midwestern United States; D054525:Minority Health; D011057:Politics; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D064890:Social Determinants of Health; D012938:Social Perception; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014495:Universities; D055815:Young Adult