Abstract

Examining men's health beliefs regarding prostate cancer screening is a vital issue and requires a reliable and valid scale. Modify Champion's Revised Health Belief Model Scale to measure Jordanian men's beliefs about PCS, translate to Arabic, culturally adapt, and test its psychometric prosperities. This was a methodological study in which 432 healthy men were selected by convenient sampling. Analysis included estimation of content validity indices, internal consistency, construct validity, and predictive validity. Exploratory factor analysis yielded seven significant factors which explained variance 68.9% of variance. Confirmatory factor analysis demonstrated that scale fit the data significantly. Cronbach's alpha coefficient ranged from .83 to .92. Scale was found to be a valid and reliable for use with Jordanian men.

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