DEVELOPMENT OF THE SCALE FOR MEASURING FEAR FROM OBESITY
Abstract
Introduction: Obesity represents cumulation of adipose tissue to the extent that it decreases physical activity and psychosocial well-being, and Body Mass Index is > 30. In obese males adipose tissue makes 20% or more of the total body weight, while this percentage in females is 25%. According to epidemiological data more than half of the adult population of Serbia (54%) has a problem with obesity or pre-obesity.
Objective: The aim of this study was creation of a questionnaire which will measure fear of obesity reliably and accurately.
Materials and Methods: The study involved the students of medicine and pharmacy from all years at the Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac. They were offered to express their level of agreement with the statements from the survey (21 in total) using a Likert scale, which provided seven answers. After collecting the data, a statistical analysis was performed using IBM SPSS Statistics 18.
Results: Within the first reliability analysis, a correlation matrix was constructed, which was used to assess whether any of the questions should be eliminated. The value of Cronbach's alpha was 0,871. After the exploratory factor analysis, five factors were revealed: fear, social effects, avoiding meals, eating habits and diet.
Conclusion: The questionnaire created in this study measures fear from obesty with satisfactory reliability, but futher studies are necessery to test its validity.References
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