title: The capacity for health promotion survey.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The objective was to develop and examine the psychometric properties of the Capacity for Health Promotion Survey designed to assess the practice of health promotion in the area of severe mental illness.
  
  
  METHODS
  Seven hundred and eighty-five health professionals in Queensland, Australia, completed the survey. A principal component analysis was used to assess the factor structure of the scale and investigations of internal consistency, interitem correlation and item-discriminant validity were conducted to establish the reliability and validity of the survey.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The final survey is a 22-item scale comprising five subscales: Beliefs about Behavior Change, Intention to Promote Health, Health Promotion Skills, Effectiveness of Health Promotion and Health Promoting Norms. The survey demonstrated satisfactory internal consistency for the five subscales. Items were more strongly correlated within their own subscales than with other subscales, providing evidence of discriminant validity.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The Capacity for Health Promotion Survey is a psychometrically sound measure to assess the practice of health promotion in the area of severe mental illness.
authors.affiliation: Centre for National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine (CONROD), Griffith Health Institute, Griffith University, Meadowbrook, Australia. Electronic address: a.maujean@griffith.edu.au.
authors.forename: Annick
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Maujean
authors.affiliation: Centre for National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine (CONROD), Griffith Health Institute, Griffith University, Meadowbrook, Australia.
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kendall
authors.affiliation: Centre for National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine (CONROD), Griffith Health Institute, Griffith University, Meadowbrook, Australia.
authors.forename: Carolyn
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ehrlich
authors.affiliation: School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Herston, QLD, Australia.
authors.forename: Steve
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kisely
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000488:Allied Health Personnel; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003625:Data Collection; D005260:Female; D058005:General Practitioners; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009726:Nurses; D025341:Principal Component Analysis; D011361:Professional Competence; D011594:Psychometrics; D011793:Queensland; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Health promotion; Mental health; Physical health; Reliability; Validity