Global screening of health behaviors: Introducing Lev-screening (Lev-s)-development and psychometric evaluation.
Poor health behaviors have been identified as a critical factor for the burden on healthcare systems and individual suffering. However, comprehensive assessment of health behaviors is time-consuming and often neglected. To address this, we introduce the Lev-screening (Lev-s), a new, brief tool that...
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| description | Poor health behaviors have been identified as a critical factor for the burden on healthcare systems and individual suffering. However, comprehensive assessment of health behaviors is time-consuming and often neglected. To address this, we introduce the Lev-screening (Lev-s), a new, brief tool that covers multiple health behaviors. The Lev-s assesses ten health behaviors-physical activity, diet, alcohol use, tobacco use, illegal drug use, sleep, social relations, meaningful activities, sexual health, and screen health-using 33 items. This article details the development and psychometric evaluation of Lev-s with a sample of 2,279 participants aged 18-87. Test-retest reliability estimated as intra-class correlation coefficients for the different health behaviors ranged from .71 to .98 (n = 157), indicating moderate to excellent reliability. Lev-s showed associations with quality of life, demonstrated inter-correlations among included health behaviors, and detected group differences between individuals with and without neurodevelopmental conditions. The Lev-s exhibits satisfactory psychometric properties and holds promise as an efficient tool for screening of health behaviors. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-ca8d726ec0fa40269ef38130a890193f2025-01-08T05:32:30ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032024-01-011912e031556510.1371/journal.pone.0315565Global screening of health behaviors: Introducing Lev-screening (Lev-s)-development and psychometric evaluation.Douglas SjöwallFelicia StålhandGreta SchettiniPetter GustavssonTatja HirvikoskiPoor health behaviors have been identified as a critical factor for the burden on healthcare systems and individual suffering. However, comprehensive assessment of health behaviors is time-consuming and often neglected. To address this, we introduce the Lev-screening (Lev-s), a new, brief tool that covers multiple health behaviors. The Lev-s assesses ten health behaviors-physical activity, diet, alcohol use, tobacco use, illegal drug use, sleep, social relations, meaningful activities, sexual health, and screen health-using 33 items. This article details the development and psychometric evaluation of Lev-s with a sample of 2,279 participants aged 18-87. Test-retest reliability estimated as intra-class correlation coefficients for the different health behaviors ranged from .71 to .98 (n = 157), indicating moderate to excellent reliability. Lev-s showed associations with quality of life, demonstrated inter-correlations among included health behaviors, and detected group differences between individuals with and without neurodevelopmental conditions. The Lev-s exhibits satisfactory psychometric properties and holds promise as an efficient tool for screening of health behaviors.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0315565 |
| spellingShingle | Douglas Sjöwall Felicia Stålhand Greta Schettini Petter Gustavsson Tatja Hirvikoski Global screening of health behaviors: Introducing Lev-screening (Lev-s)-development and psychometric evaluation. PLoS ONE |
| title | Global screening of health behaviors: Introducing Lev-screening (Lev-s)-development and psychometric evaluation. |
| title_full | Global screening of health behaviors: Introducing Lev-screening (Lev-s)-development and psychometric evaluation. |
| title_fullStr | Global screening of health behaviors: Introducing Lev-screening (Lev-s)-development and psychometric evaluation. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Global screening of health behaviors: Introducing Lev-screening (Lev-s)-development and psychometric evaluation. |
| title_short | Global screening of health behaviors: Introducing Lev-screening (Lev-s)-development and psychometric evaluation. |
| title_sort | global screening of health behaviors introducing lev screening lev s development and psychometric evaluation |
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