Citation

Baheiraei A, Soltani F, Ebadi A, Cheraghi MA, Foroushani AR, Catalano RF. Health Promot. Int. 2014; 31(1): 59-72.

Affiliation

Social Development Research Group, School of Social Work, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Oxford University Press)

DOI

10.1093/heapro/dau062

PMID

25107919

Abstract

This article investigated the psychometric properties of 'Communities That Care Youth Survey' (CTC-YS) among Iranian adolescents. To prepare the CTC-YS for administration in Iran, it was translated from English to Persian and back translated to English. A total of 753 Iranian adolescents aged 15-18 years old filled out a CTC-YS questionnaire. Its reliability for Iranian youth was assessed using Cronbach's alpha coefficient and its construct validity was assessed using confirmatory factor analysis. After removing two items from individual/peer and community domains, a suitable internal reliability was found among items of the 29 sub-scales (0.66-0.89). The findings of construct validity suggest that existing measures of risk and protective factors have good construct validity. The validity and reliability of CTC-YS showed that this questionnaire has appropriate psychometric characteristics and can be made available to researchers in Iranian adolescent health as an appropriate tool for future research.

Language: en