Development of the elderly lifestyle profile: A Delphi survey of multidisciplinary health care experts

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AbstractBackgroundLifestyle has been considered as a crucial key factor which effect on one's health and quality of life and it has become a focus of increasing research interest worldwide. As research shown that lifestyle is reconsidered an important health determinant in preventive health care. However, lifestyle is a multifaceted construct and there was a limited evident regarding lifestyle assessment which is able to evaluate individual's multi‐domain lifestyle factors. This study attempt to develop evaluation items used to measure a multifaceted lifestyle profile for community‐dwelling elders in order to prevent chronic disease and improve their health and quality of life.MethodOpinions from 21 Delphi panels who have experience with elderly and lifestyle research were collected from December 2019 to January 2020. A Delphi survey was carried out three times, and based on previous research. The first Delphi survey gathered opinions using a mix of open‐ended questions and closed‐ended questions reconstructed regarding the evaluation items of elderly's multifaceted lifestyle profile. The second Delphi survey was conducted after the processes of deleting and modifying several items based on the first Delphi survey. In the third Delphi survey after the results of second Delphi survey were presented to expert panels, final opinions from experts were converged. Ethics approval was granted by the Yonsei University(YUWIRB‐1041849‐201901‐BM‐012‐01)Result65 items were selected as the first Delphi results, and as the second Delphi result, 62 items were analyzed after the processes of deleting and modifying the values below a content validity ratio of .42. Finally, in the third Delphi survey, 62 items were analyzed as appropriate items. The average content validity ratio of the final Delphi survey was .92 stability .18, and consensus .80, which were highConclusionThis study verified the content validity of the evaluation items for community‐dwelling older' multifaceted lifestyle profile. In the future, it is expected that through verifying validity and reliability, there will be used as a standardized assessment tool in the clinical environment.