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| Title |
Assessing alcohol abstinence self-efficacy in undergraduate students: psychometric evaluation of the alcohol abstinence self-efficacy scale
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| Published in |
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, November 2015
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12955-015-0387-1 |
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| Authors |
Franklin N. Glozah, Nana Ama Takyibea Adu, Joyce Komesuor |
| Abstract |
Alcohol use is a major public health concern with respect to its impact on youth morbidity and mortality. Self-efficacy to abstain from alcohol use in young people is an important prevention and intervention strategy in future alcohol dependence. However, research on the assessment of self-efficacy to abstain from alcohol use among undergraduate students is almost non-existent in Ghana, apparently due to the unavailability of a standardised testing instrument. The purpose of this study was to examine the factor validity, structure, and reliability of the 20-item Alcohol Abstinence Self-efficacy Scale (AASES) in undergraduate students in Ghana. Two hundred and fifteen undergraduate students studying in a private university with a mean age of 23.5 years participated in the study by completing the AASES. Results of a confirmatory factor analysis showed that the data did not fit the initial four-factor AASES model. Subsequent exploratory factor analysis showed that the AASES is a unidimensional construct (in the total sample and a subsample of drinkers), contrary to findings found in western cultures. The AASES also had a high Cronbach's alpha. Although the AASES was unidimensional in this study, each of the original four-factor model also had high and acceptable Cronbach's alpha. The original AASES structure was not confirmed in this study but a unidimensional factor was found suggesting that the AASES could be used as an instrument for assessing alcohol abstinence self-efficacy in undergraduate students in Ghana, although further validation research is needed in larger as well as in different samples. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
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| United Kingdom | 1 | 33% |
| United States | 1 | 33% |
| Unknown | 1 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 3 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 85 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
| Ghana | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 83 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 12 | 14% |
| Student > Master | 11 | 13% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 10 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 9 | 11% |
| Professor | 4 | 5% |
| Other | 15 | 18% |
| Unknown | 24 | 28% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 15 | 18% |
| Psychology | 12 | 14% |
| Social Sciences | 8 | 9% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 6 | 7% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 3 | 4% |
| Other | 16 | 19% |
| Unknown | 25 | 29% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 December 2015.
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#13,450,711
of 22,834,308 outputs
Outputs from Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
#1,027
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#186,216
of 386,751 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
#12
of 28 outputs
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