Validity and reliability of a Malay version of the brief illness perception questionnaire for patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus

Validity and reliability of a Malay version of the brief illness perception questionnaire for patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus

Abstract Background Illness perceptions involve the personal beliefs that patients have about their illness and may influence health behaviours considerably. Since an instrument to measure these perceptions for Malay population in Malaysia is lacking, we translated and examined the psychometric prop...

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Main Authors: Boon-How Chew, Rimke C. Vos, Monique Heijmans, Sazlina Shariff-Ghazali, Aaron Fernandez, Guy E. H. M. Rutten
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-08-01
Series:BMC Medical Research Methodology
Subjects:
Beliefs
Brief illness perception questionnaire
Validity
Illness perceptions
Type 2 diabetes mellitus
Self-efficacy
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12874-017-0394-5

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