Establishing Content and Face Validity of a Developed Educational Module: Life Skill-Based Education for Improving Emotional Health and Coping Mechanisms among Adolescents in Malaysian Orphanages

Introduction: The current study as a part of our investigation on improvingemotional and behavioural health in Malaysian orphanages was aimed toestablish Content Validity Index (CVI) as well as Face Validity of a new lifeskill-based module for improving emotional health and coping mechanisms inMalaysian Institutionalised Adolescents of 2 different orphanages.Methods: In order to assess the content validity we used a 16-item questionnaire.The initial version of the module was reviewed by 9 experts in the area. Then,the face validity of the module was assessed among 30 adolescents aged 14-17from 2 different orphanages. By Using Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scale(DASS21) and Brief COPE scale as the study instruments, the emotional heathand coping mechanisms among the participants were investigated before andafter a life skills workshop (pre- and post-test). The activities in the workshopwere randomly selected from the module activities.Results: The Results of the first part of the study showed that the minimumValue of the Item-level Content Validity Index and the computed sum of items(S-CVI) for the study module were 0.78 and 0.93 respectively. The results of thesecond part of the study showed that the selected activities from modulesignificantly change the coping mechanisms expect substance use, behaviordisengagement, venting, humor and religion (p > 0.05). Furthermore, the meanscore of anxiety (t = 5.39, P < 0.001) and stress (t = 3.90, P < 0.001) significantlydecreased among the participants in post-test but there was no significant changeon the mean score of depression (t = 0.50, P = 0.59).Conclusion: both contend and face validity of the developed module wereapproved.

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Content validity ، Face validity ، Life skills education ، Health education ، Malaysian institutionalised adolescents