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Published: 2022-08-08
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.52163/yhc.v63i4.385
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Vol. 63 No. 4 (2022)
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Nga, N. T. ., Tiên, Đoàn N. T. ., Toàn, Đỗ T. T. ., Sơn, Đinh T. ., Thái, P. Q. ., Hải, P. T. ., & Hưng, L. X. . (2022). VALIDATION OF SEEKING AND USING HEALTH INFORMATION QUESTIONNAIRES FOR MOTHERS WITH CHILDREN UNDER 1 YEAR OLD IN HANOI, 2020. Vietnam Journal of Community Medicine, 63(4). https://doi.org/10.52163/yhc.v63i4.385

VALIDATION OF SEEKING AND USING HEALTH INFORMATION QUESTIONNAIRES FOR MOTHERS WITH CHILDREN UNDER 1 YEAR OLD IN HANOI, 2020

Nguyen Thi Nga1, Doan Ngoc Thuy Tien1, Do Thi Thanh Toan1, Dinh Thai Son1, Pham Quang Thai1, Phan Thanh Hai1, Le Xuan Hung1
1 School of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Hanoi Medical University

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Abstract

This study aims to validate seeking and using health information questionnaires for mothers with
children under 1 year old in Hanoi 2019. The questionnares developed and referenced based on two
questionnaires of Yen-Yuan Chen, PSM (the online academic help-seeking questionnaire) and OIMH
(Online Health Information Utilization questionnaires). The cross-section study was conducted with
301 mothers taking their children for vaccination at 3 vaccination centers in Hanoi. The average age
of mothers in this study was 31.18; the reliability coefficient (Cronbach Alpha) of each question
is from 0.62 to 0.86; all variables are retained in the questionnaires; KMO test reached 0.81, and
Barlett’s test has p<0.05, indicating that this questionnaire is suitable for factor analysis (EFA);
EFA analysis produced 7 groups of factors; structural equation modeling (SEM) was performed
to confirm the appropriate structure of the questionnaires for the mothers with children under 1
year of age: RMSEA = 0.076, SRMR = 0.07, TLI = 0.81, CFI = 0.84. These results have shown
that the structure of seeking and using health information questionnaires is reliable and appropriate.
Therefore, other studies have a scientific basis for using this questionnare to evaluate the search and
use health information for mothers with children under 1 year of age.

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Keywords

Health information, find information, internet.

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