Validation of the Valuing Questionnaire (VQ) in adults with cardiovascular disease and risk
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Participants and procedure
Participants were recruited for a 30-min anonymous online survey study on “health factors and behavior” through a notice posted on the Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) platform. Survey participation was restricted to those individuals identified by Amazon as “masters qualified” workers (i.e., those who “consistently submit high-quality results,” measured by a proprietary quality-assurance algorithm which assesses, among other parameters, accuracy percentage in Human Intelligence Tasks) (Loepp &
Demographics
Participants included adults aged 35 to 81 (M = 47.87, SD = 10.08), and they were 53% female. The sample was predominantly White (73.4%) and Asian (19.0%), with a small minority self-identified as Black (5.2%), Native American (0.8%) or Other (1.6%), and 3.2% of the sample identified as Hispanic. Marital status was reported as married (59.1%), widowed (4.0%), divorced/separated (13.1), and never married (23.4%). Educational attainment was reported as not completing high school (1.2%), high
Discussion
The ability to behave in a values-driven manner, even when it is difficult or uncomfortable to do so, is an important therapeutic target for promotion of positive health behavior change to prevent disease or improve outcomes in patient populations with modifiable medical risk factors (Graham et al., 2016; McCracken & Gutiérrez-Martínez, 2011), including CVD. Findings here support the use of the VQ, a brief self-report measure of values progress and obstruction, in adults with self-reported CVD
Funding
This research was supported in part by funding from a Rutgers University Busch Biomedical Seed Grant to the corresponding author. Rutgers University had no involvement with the content of this project beyond financial support.
Disclosures
All authors have read and approved of the manuscript.
Declaration of competing interests
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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