Reliability and Validity Study of the Turkish Version of the Motivation and Attitude to Change Health (MATCH) Scale.
Duygu Ayhan Başer, Ezgi Ağadayı, İzzet Fidancı and 2 others
PMID 39658055WHAT IT FOUND
The Turkish MATCH scale offers a short way to ask patients with chronic disease how ready they are to change health habits.
It was tested in 305 patients, but no patient outcomes were measured.
Key findings
01The Turkish MATCH scale was tested with 305 patients who had newly diagnosed chronic diseases.
02The 9-item scale gave consistent scores, with a total score consistency of 0.737.
03A panel of 10 experts rated all nine items as appropriate or needing only minor revision.
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What it does not show
Patients were recruited from one family medicine centre, so the results may not apply to other settings or regions. The sample was limited to patients with newly diagnosed chronic disease, no mental illness and no orientation or cooperation problems, so it does not represent all chronic disease patients. Only 30 of the 305 participants were retested after 3 weeks. The study focused on measurement properties, not on patient outcomes.
Declared interests
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that using the Turkish MATCH scale improves patient motivation or health outcomes. The study tested measurement properties in 305 patients, not an intervention based on the scores.