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Clinical Psychology and Special Education
2017. Vol. 6, no. 2, 158–174
doi:10.17759/cpse.2017060212
ISSN: 2304-0394 (online)

Psychometric Properties of Revised Illness Perception Questionnaire: Testing on Patients with Breast Cancer and Ischemic Heart Disease

 
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Abstract

The article presents result of testing revised illness perception questionnaire. The questionnaire was developed based on the model of self-regulation G. Leventhal. The study involved 140 patients: patients with breast cancer and patients with ischemic heart disease. It is shown that the Russian version of revised illness perception questionnaire is a reliable tool for quantifying components of the perception of the disease. The technique has sufficient reliability, performance consistency and internal structure corresponds to the English version. External validity questionnaire confirmed significant association components of illness perception with personal anxiety. According to the results of cluster analysis questionnaire scales was isolated polar continuum of possible options for responding to the disease, manifested in specific types of attitude to the disease.

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Keywords: illness perception, revised illness perception questionnaire, psychometrics, related to the disease, internal picture of the disease, breast cancer, ischemic heart disease

Journal rubric: Methods and Techniques

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Article type: scientific article

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/cpse.2017060212

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For citation: Yaltonsky, V.M., Moskovchenko, D.V., Sirota, N.A., Yaltonskaya, A.V. (2017). Psychometric Properties of Revised Illness Perception Questionnaire: Testing on Patients with Breast Cancer and Ischemic Heart Disease . Clinical Psychology and Special Education, 6(2), 158–174. (In Russ.). https://doi.org/10.17759/cpse.2017060212

© Yaltonsky V.M., Moskovchenko D.V., Sirota N.A., Yaltonskaya A.V., 2017

License: CC BY-NC 4.0

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Information About the Authors

Vladimir M. Yaltonsky, Doctor of Medicine, Professor of the Department of Clinical Psychology, Russian University of Medicine, Moscow, Russian Federation, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3337-0123, e-mail: yaltonsky@mail.ru

Denis V. Moskovchenko, Candidate of Science (Psychology), Associate Professor of the Department of Clinical Psychology, Department of Clinical Psychology, Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry named after A. I. Evdokimov, Moscow, Russian Federation, e-mail: xedin-90@mail.ru

Nataliya A. Sirota, Doctor of Medicine, Professor, head of the Department of Clinical Psychology, A.P. Chekhov Scientific and Educational Institute of Social, Humanitarian and Economic Sciences, Russian University of Medicineзаведующая кафедрой клинической психологии Научно-образовательного института социальных, гуманитарных и экономических наук имени А.П. Чехова, Moscow, Russian Federation, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2736-9986, e-mail: sirotan@mail.ru

Aleksandra V. Yaltonskaya, Candidate of Science (Medicine), Head of Educational Programs, Moscow Institute of Schema-Therapy, Moscow, Russian Federation, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5842-7013, e-mail: y_alex00@mail.ru

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