Abstract
There is a growing need to assess the psychological outcomes of exercise referral and the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence has called for the routine assessment of life-quality. However, a quality of life scale specific to the requirements of exercise referral is currently unavailable. Therefore, the aim of this study was to produce a quality of life measure for this purpose. The Exercise Referral Quality of Life Scale is a 22-item measure comprising three domains: mental and physical health, injury pain and illness and physical activity facilitators. Exploratory factor analysis determined the initial factor structure and was subsequently confirmed by confirmatory factor analysis. Additional scale properties were also assessed. The scale contributes to the global need for improved consistent psychological outcome assessment of exercise referral.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1-12 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | Health Psychology Open |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Early online date | 7 Jul 2015 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 3 Nov 2015 |
Bibliographical note
This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (http://www.uk.sagepub.com/aboutus/openaccess.htm).Keywords
- Exercise behaviour
- Health psychology
- Physical activity
- Public health psychology
- Quality of life
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Clinical Psychology
- Psychiatry and Mental health
