Development of Chinese military psychosomatic health scale / 中华行为医学与脑科学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To develop a Chinese military psychosomatic health scale(CMPHS) and examine its reliability and validity. Methods Based upon the previous researches, the Scale was compiled according to open-ended inventory survey. The data was collected from 1050 subjects chosen by random cluster sampling. 60 of them were tested with the CPSHS at the same time, while 61 of them were retested with the CMPHS after two weeks. The reliability and validity were examined by exploratory factor analysis ( EFA) and correlation analysis. Results According to the factor analysis results, 11 factors were extracted, namely espiratory apparatus, alimentary system,skeletal and musculature,integument,regeneration and endocrine,nervous system, anxiety, depression, psy-choticism and family history. There were 91 items in the formal scale when one lie subscale was added. The correlation between subscales were 0. 103 ～ 0. 778 (P < 0. 01) , the correlation between subscales and total scale were 0.600 ～0.859(P<0.01). The test-retest correlation coefficients of total scale and subscales were 0.427 ～0.901 (P < 0.01); the Cronbach (α) coefficients were 0. 643 ～ 0. 935 (P < 0. 01) ; and the split-half correlation coefficients were 0. 349 ～ 0. 855 (P < 0. 01 ). The correlation coefficients were 0. 425 ～ 0. 979 (P < 0. 05 or 0. 01 ). Conclusion The Chinese military psychosomatic health scale has acceptable psychometrics properties on reliability and validity.