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Development and Evaluation of Health Empowerment Scale for North Korean Women Defectors  

Lim, Semi (Department of Nursing, Gwangju University)
Kang, Younhee (College of Nursing, Graduate Program in System Health Science and Engineering, Ewha Womans University)
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Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing / v.52, no.1, 2022 , pp. 80-91 More about this Journal
Abstract
Purpose: This study developed an instrument to evaluate the health empowerment of North Korean women refugees and examined its validity and reliability. Methods: Through literature review and focused group interviews, 66 preliminary items with three constructs, including perceived control, perceived competence, and goal internalization were selected based on Menon's psychological health empowerment model. A questionnaire survey was conducted with 239 North Korean women refugees in the community from August 31 to September 4, 2020. Content, construct, convergent, and discriminative validity were evaluated. Cronbach's α was used to evaluate the reliability of scale. Results: The final instrument consisted of 31 items with three factors that were identified through confirmatory factor analysis. The convergent validity showed that the correlation coefficient was .52 (p < .001), which confirmed the validity of the developed measurement tool. Cronbach's α for all the items was .94, and Cronbach's α for the factors was .76~.91. Conclusion: This health empowerment scale has been developed to include aspects of health empowerment, provide a conceptual framework, and offer objective indicators to evaluate the effectiveness of a health education program.
Keywords
North Korea; Health; Empowerment; Reliability and Validity;
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