Chi Chapter, Sigma Theta Tau International; scholarships from the Leroy E. Dettman Foundation and the Reserve Officers Association of the United

Scales that make theoretical concepts of health beliefs opera-tional must be shown to have acceptable levels of reliability and validity before they can be incor-porated into teaching programs. This paper describes the process used to evaluate a Health Belief Model scale. A revised 11-item scale is proposed for use by diabetes educators. Content validity of the initial scale (76 items) and the shorter version was verified. Reliability estimates obtained by factor structur