Abstract
This study was designed to translate the instrument used to assess
the risk and protective predictors of Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) into
the Urdu language and to determine their psychometric properties. The
majority of the Pakistani population lacks fluency in English and that
reprimands a toll that must be used in the indigenous local language. The
investigation included 42 participants while the entire process of
translation carried 10 sequential stages. The study sample included 20
bilingual cases, ages ranging from 35 to 55 years, who were matched on
gender and obtained from the community controls group. Psychosocial
measures proposed on the basis of literature review to assess risk and
protective predictors of CHD included: The Perceived Stress Scale (Cohen, Kamarck, & Mermelstein, 1983); Center for Epidemiological
Studies Short Depression Scale (Radloff, 1977); State-Trait Anxiety
Inventory (Spielberger, 1983); State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory
(Spielberger, 1988); Personality Deviance Scale-Revised (Bedford &
Foulds, 1978); Revised Life Orientation Test (Scheier, Carver, &
Bridges,1994); Perceived Locus of Control Scale and Multidimensional
Scale of Perceived Social Support (Zimet, Dahlem, Zimet, & Farley,
1988). To ensure a rigorous process of translation and to achieve
equivalence between the original version and translated versions of
scales, Vallerand’s (1989) steps for instrument translation with slight
modification were employed. The results showed that there were no
significant differences in the mean scores of English and Urdu versions
on any of the scales, suggesting similar dissemination of the content of
the scales in Urdu and English. Pearson correlation analysis between pre
(English) and post-administration (Urdu) revealed a significant positive
correlation demonstrating reasonably high validity for all the scales. The
alpha coefficients revealed moderate to high level of internal consistency
of all scales for both administrations respectively. The translated
instruments can be used in the routine medical assessment to assess the
risk and protective predictors of CHD.
Rafia Rafique, Afsheen Masood, Fatima Kamran, Naumana Amjad. (2021) Psychometric Properties of Instruments Assessing Psychosocial Predictors of Coronary Heart Disease, Journal of Behavioural Sciences, Volume-31, Issue-1.
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