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Abstract: (1) Background: Unadjusted lifestyles have been the main cause of risk for the loss of years
of healthy life. However, currently valid and reliable instruments to assess the lifestyles of the elderly
are quite long and difficult to interpret. For this reason, the objective of this study was to adapt and
validate the ‘Individual Lifestyle Profile’ (ILP) scale in a sample of elderly people; (2) Methods: A
methodological study was carried out and a sample of 300 older adults enrolled in a Health Unit
located in the North of Portugal was used, who responded to the scale. We examined internal
consistency, predictive validity, and discriminative ability; (3) Results: After the Exploratory Factorial
analysis, a solution was found with four factors that explain a variance of 67.8%. The designation of
the factors was changed from the original scale, with the exception of one dimension, and they were
called Health Self-management, Social Participation and Group Interaction, Citizenship and Physical
Activity. The total internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha) was 0.858, ranging from 0.666 to 0.860 in
the mentioned factors; (4) Conclusions: The ILP scale proved to be easy to apply and presented a
good reliability and validity index, based on internal consistency, AFE and AFC. The scale allows
evaluating the lifestyle of older adults, and its use will be aimed at modifying behaviors associated
with negative lifestyles of older adults and their individual needs.
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Keywords
Validation studies Factor analyses Aged Lifestyle
Citation
Faria, A. C. A., Martins, M. M., Ribeiro, O. M. P. L., Ventura-Silva, J. M. A., Teles, P. J. F. C., & Laredo-Aguilera, J. A. (2022). Adaptation and Validation of the Individual Lifestyle Profile Scale of Portuguese Older Adults Living at Home. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(9).
Publisher
MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute)