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Abstract
The objectives were to translate the University of Jyvaskyla Active Aging Scale
(UJACAS) to Swedish, to establish semantic equivalence and evaluate psychometric properties for use among persons 55 years and older in Sweden. The UJACAS contains 17 items to be self-assessed regarding goals, abilities, opportunity, and activity. Psychometric properties content validity, data quality including floor and ceiling effects, test-retest reliability, internal consistency, and construct validity were evaluated with different samples in three phases, using state-of-the-art statistics. After translating and establishing semantic equivalence, content validity was assessed as high. With ICC=0.88 (95% CI 0.80–0.93) test-retest reliability was moderate. Internal consistency was high (Cronbach alpha=0.84–0.91), and 84% of the questions reached the cut-off value of 0.3 for corrected item-total correlation. Construct validity hypotheses were confirmed. Results indicate that the UJACAS is reliable and valid for use among persons 55 and older in Sweden.
(UJACAS) to Swedish, to establish semantic equivalence and evaluate psychometric properties for use among persons 55 years and older in Sweden. The UJACAS contains 17 items to be self-assessed regarding goals, abilities, opportunity, and activity. Psychometric properties content validity, data quality including floor and ceiling effects, test-retest reliability, internal consistency, and construct validity were evaluated with different samples in three phases, using state-of-the-art statistics. After translating and establishing semantic equivalence, content validity was assessed as high. With ICC=0.88 (95% CI 0.80–0.93) test-retest reliability was moderate. Internal consistency was high (Cronbach alpha=0.84–0.91), and 84% of the questions reached the cut-off value of 0.3 for corrected item-total correlation. Construct validity hypotheses were confirmed. Results indicate that the UJACAS is reliable and valid for use among persons 55 and older in Sweden.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 17-34 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Journal | Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Early online date | 2024 Jan 22 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2024 |
Subject classification (UKÄ)
- Gerontology, specializing in Medical and Health Sciences
- Occupational Therapy
Free keywords
- healthy ageing
- self-rating scale
- test-retest reliability
- outcome measures
- reliability and validity
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Active ageing in the right place - Contributions from the RELOC-AGE programme
Nordeström, F., 2024, Lund: Lund University, Faculty of Medicine. 100 p.Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis (compilation)
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RELOC-AGE: Should I stay or should I move? Housing preferences among younger older people and associations with active and healthy ageing
Nordeström, F. (Researcher), Iwarsson, S. (Supervisor), Granbom, M. (Assistant supervisor) & Zingmark, M. (Assistant supervisor)
2020/05/01 → …
Project: Dissertation
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RELOC-AGE: How do housing choices and relocation matter for active and healthy ageing?
Iwarsson, S. (PI), Björk, J. (Researcher), Granbom, M. (Researcher), Gefenaite, G. (Researcher), Schmidt, S. (Researcher), Zingmark, M. (Researcher), Rantanen, T. (Researcher), Slaug, B. (Researcher) & Nordeström, F. (Research student)
Swedish Research Council, Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research (Forte)
2019/07/01 → 2026/12/31
Project: Research