Development and initial validation of subjective quality of life of farmers / 中华行为医学与脑科学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To development a subjective quality of life of farmers and provide the evaluation of measurement tools of the the quality of life. Methods Established items library by policy learning,literature review, consulting experts, learn questionnaires, questionnaire surveying and interview, then about 536 farms and 332farms are picked out randomly as samples from Yunan and Henan provide,Item analysis,factor analysis and analysis of reliability and validity are executed. Results ( 1 ) Item analysis showed this questionnaire had satisfactory item discrimination,the correlations between items and total scores were significant,the correlation coefficient of items above 0.3. (2) Exploratory showed analysis find the factor loading range from 0. 425 to 0. 912 . Eigenvalue greater than 1, three sub-questionnaires cumulative total explained variance was 51. 603%, 50. 130% and 55. 676%. Confirmatory factor analysis had a higher goodness of fit. ( 3 ) Cronbacha' α coefficient range from 0.5989 to 0.9241 ,split-half reliability range from 0. 5897 to 0. 8936 and criterion validity range from 0. 125 to 0. 640. Conclusion The questionnaire has good reliability and validity,and can be used as a measurement tool for measuring the quality of life of farmers.