Turkish Language Equivalence and Reliability of the Women's Attitudes Towards Smoking Cessation Questionnaire

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the validity and reliability of the Turkish version of Women's Attitudes Towards Smoking Cessation Questionnaire/ Smoking and Women Questionnaire(SWQ) developed by Elsie E. Gulick et al., and to determine the attitudes and readiness to stop smoking in nursing students. In the first stage; SWQ was translated into Turkish and then back-translated into English. The language equivalence and content validity of SWQ was evaluated by experts. In the second stage; Turkish SWQ was administered to 80 smoking and non-smoking nursing students who constituted the sample of the study. The data were analyzed by using Cronbach's alpha and Pearson product-moment correlation on a statistics package program SPSS 10.0 for Windows (Statistical Program for Social Sciences). Test - re test correlation coefficient was found 0.63 for smokers and 0.77 for non-smokers. Cronbach's Alpha coefficients between 0.70-0.88, and item total correlations between -0.00-0.72 demonstrated that Turkish version of this questionnaire is valid and can be used in Turkey