Validity and reliability of a Malay version of the brief illness perception questionnaire for patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus

BACKGROUND:Illness perceptions involve the personal beliefs that patients have about their illness and may influence health behaviours considerably. Since an instrument to measure these perceptions for Malay population in Malaysia is lacking, we translated and examined the psychometric properties of...

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Main Authors: Chew, Boon-How, Vos, Rimke C., Heijmans, Monique, Shariff-Ghazali, Sazlina, Fernandez, Aaron, Rutten, Guy E. H. M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Nature 2017
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/63672/1/Validity%20and%20reliability%20of%20a%20Malay%20version%20of%20the%20brief%20illness%20perception%20questionnaire%20for%20patients%20with%20type%202%20diabetes%20mellitus.pdf