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. 2022 Jul 29:13:952951.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.952951. eCollection 2022.

Reliability and validity of the Mental Health Self-management Questionnaire among Chinese patients with mood and anxiety disorders

Mengmeng Wang  1 , Jingjun Wang  1 , Ya Wang  2 , Xia Huang  3 , Yalin Huang  3 , Junqiang Huang  4 , Yan Feng  5 , Xiaolin Li  1
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Reliability and validity of the Mental Health Self-management Questionnaire among Chinese patients with mood and anxiety disorders

Mengmeng Wang et al. Front Psychiatry. .

Abstract

Background: Self-management plays an important role in promoting and restoring mental health for individuals with mental health issues. However, there is no valid and reliable Chinese tool assessing the self-management behaviors of people with mood and anxiety disorders. This study aimed to develop a Chinese version of the Mental Health Self-management Questionnaire (MHSQ-C) and to verify its psychometric properties.

Methods: A total of 440 potential participants were recruited by convenience sampling from June to August 2020. Item analysis and analyses of internal consistency, test-retest reliability, content validity, construct validity and criterion validity were performed.

Results: Data from 326 participants were used. Three factors obtained via principal component analysis and varimax rotation explained 53.68% of the total variance. The average content validity index was 0.99. The Cronbach's α coefficient (total: 0.874, clinical: 0.706, empowerment: 0.818, vitality: 0.830) and test-retest reliability (ICC: total: 0.783, 95% confidence interval (CI) [0.616, 0.882], clinical: 0.525, 95% CI [0.240, 0.725], empowerment: 0.786, 95% CI [0.622, 0.884], vitality: 0.748, 95% CI [0.564, 0.862]) were good. The MHSQ-C was well correlated with the Partners in Health scale and showed no floor or ceiling effect.

Discussion: The MHSQ-C is a reliable and valid tool to evaluate the self-management strategies of patients with mood and anxiety disorders.

Keywords: anxiety disorders; mental health; mood disorders; reliability; self-management; validity.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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The process of developing the Chinese Mental Health Self-management Questionnaire.
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Histogram of the MHSQ score. MHSQ, Mental Health Self-management Questionnaire.
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