Background: A healthy lifestyle is important for recovery, coping with life's stresses, minimizing the occurrence and impact of health issues, and improving quality of life. Maintaining a healthy lifestyle may help in preventing or delaying the onset of many health problems.
Methods: A quantitative research approach with a randomized control trial (RCT) was adopted. 130 outpatients were randomized to experimental and control groups. The data were analyzed by SPSS version 28.8 and R software.
Results: Waist circumference (WC) significantly differed between the experimental group and the control group (F = 14.87, P < .001). There was a decreasing trend in weight in the experimental group across the three time points (baseline to the second assessment), as compared to the control group (F = 4.29, P = .01). Quality of health of the subjects as measured by the visual analog scale (VAS) of the Euro Quality Of Life (EQ5D) significantly differed (F = 87.47, P < .001). Post-intervention, the percentage showed marked improvement in the experimental group.
Conclusion: The results of this study support that counseling about a healthy lifestyle is effective as long-term strategies to avoid weight gain, engagement in adequate physical activity, taking nutritious food and maintaining healthy sleep can, in the long run, prevent metabolic syndrome. These interventions can be delivered at a low cost, are safer and practically feasible and may have a long-term impact on the quality of life.
Background: Rosenberg's Self-esteem Scale (RSES) has been widely used without proper translation, cultural adaptation, and testing psychometric properties in Indian studies. The study aimed to translate and culturally adapt the 10-item Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale into Hindi and find psychometric properties.
Material and methods: We have translated the scale using World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines. Using a cross-sectional design, the translated scale was administered to 143 undergraduate nursing students randomly selected. Content validity index (CVI) was used to assess content validity. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) with principal axis factoring was used to estimate the construct validity. Cronbach's alpha (α) and intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) were used to check internal consistency and test re-test reliability.
Results: The S-CVI for the Hindi RSES was 0.98. Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) (=0.79), and Bartlette's test for sphericity was significant (χ 2 = 425.06, df = 45, P < .001). EFA extracted three common factors, explaining 62.62% of the total variance. The factor loading of all items suggests a good representation of their underlying construct; all items >0.47, except item 1 (= -0.373). The test re-test, an ICC was r = 0.76 (P < .001), and Cronbach's alpha (α) after deletion of item 1 was 0.81, suggesting excellent reliability.
Conclusion: The Hindi Rosenberg self-esteem scale is a psychometrically tested scale to assess self-esteem in the Hindi-speaking adult population. These findings provide empirical judgment for using the translated Hindi RSES to measure self-esteem among the adult population. The authors recommend verifying the psychometric properties in a more extensive and varied population.