PMID- 37985978
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20231122
LR  - 20231123
IS  - 1471-2458 (Electronic)
IS  - 1471-2458 (Linking)
VI  - 23
IP  - 1
DP  - 2023 Nov 20
TI  - Development of the Self-efficacy for Social Participation scale (SOSA) for 
      community-dwelling older adults.
PG  - 2294
LID - 10.1186/s12889-023-16774-6 [doi]
LID - 2294
AB  - BACKGROUND: Social participation is important for the health of older adults and 
      super-aging societies. However, relatively few independent older adults in 
      advanced countries actually participate in society, even though many of them have 
      the capacity to do so. One possible reason for this could be a lack of 
      self-efficacy for social participation. However, few scales have been developed 
      to measure self-efficacy for social participation among community-dwelling 
      independent older adults. Therefore, we developed the "Self-efficacy for Social 
      Participation" scale (SOSA) to assess the self-efficacy of community-dwelling 
      independent older adults, and examined the scale's reliability and validity. 
      METHODS: We distributed a self-administered mail survey to approximately 5,000 
      randomly selected independent older adults throughout Japan. The construct 
      validity of the SOSA was determined using exploratory and confirmatory factor 
      analyses. Criterion-related validity was assessed using the General Self-Efficacy 
      Scale (GSES) and according to subjective health status. RESULTS: In total, 1,336 
      older adults responded to the survey. Exploratory and confirmatory factor 
      analyses identified 12 items distributed among four factors: instrumental 
      self-efficacy, managerial self-efficacy, interpersonal self-efficacy and cultural 
      self-efficacy. The final model had a Cronbach's alpha of 0.90, goodness-of-fit 
      index of 0.948, adjusted goodness-of-fit index of 0.915, comparative fit index of 
      0.952, and root mean square error of approximation of 0.078. Significant 
      correlations existed between the SOSA score and GSES (r = 0.550, p < 0.01) and 
      subjective health status (r = 0.384, p < 0.01) scores. CONCLUSIONS: The SOSA 
      showed sufficient reliability and validity to assess self-efficacy for social 
      participation among older adults. This scale could aid efforts to improve the 
      physical and mental health, and longevity, of older adults through increased 
      behavioralizing social participation.
CI  - (c) 2023. The Author(s).
FAU - Oe, Nanami
AU  - Oe N
AD  - Department of Community and Public Health Nursing, Graduate School of Health 
      Sciences, Hokkaido University, N12-W5, Kita-Ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido, 060-0812, 
      Japan.
FAU - Tadaka, Etsuko
AU  - Tadaka E
AD  - Department of Community and Public Health Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, 
      Hokkaido University, N12-W5, Kita-Ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido, 060-0812, Japan. 
      e_tadaka@pop.med.hokudai.ac.jp.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20231120
PL  - England
TA  - BMC Public Health
JT  - BMC public health
JID - 100968562
SB  - IM
MH  - Humans
MH  - Aged
MH  - *Social Participation
MH  - *Independent Living/psychology
MH  - Self Efficacy
MH  - Reproducibility of Results
MH  - Health Status
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
MH  - Psychometrics
PMC - PMC10662651
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Community
OT  - Older adults
OT  - Public health
OT  - Scale development
OT  - Self-efficacy
OT  - Social participation
COIS- The authors declare no competing interests.
EDAT- 2023/11/21 06:42
MHDA- 2023/11/22 06:43
PMCR- 2023/11/20
CRDT- 2023/11/21 02:04
PHST- 2023/02/01 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2023/09/16 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2023/11/22 06:43 [medline]
PHST- 2023/11/21 06:42 [pubmed]
PHST- 2023/11/21 02:04 [entrez]
PHST- 2023/11/20 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.1186/s12889-023-16774-6 [pii]
AID - 16774 [pii]
AID - 10.1186/s12889-023-16774-6 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - BMC Public Health. 2023 Nov 20;23(1):2294. doi: 10.1186/s12889-023-16774-6.