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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Apr 22.
Published in final edited form as: J Health Commun. 2008 Jun;13(4):389–408. doi: 10.1080/10810730802063546

Table 2.

Measures Assessing C-SHIP Model Factors

C-SHIP Model Factor
Measure Citation # of
Items
Scale Cronbach’s
α
Cancer-relevant encodings and self-construals
   Functional Well-being Brady et al., 1997;
Cella et al., 2003
5 0–4 .84
Cancer-relevant beliefs and expectancies
   Health Self-efficacy Gustafson et al., 2005a 3 0–4 .77
Cancer-relevant affects
   Emotional Well-being Brady et al., 1997;
Cella et al., 2003
6 0–4 .86
   Negative Emotion Gustafson et al., 2005a 8 1–5 .92
Cancer-relevant goals and values
   Need for Information Gustafson et al., 2005a 4 0–4 .85
Cancer-relevant self-regulatory competencies and skills
    Participation in Health Care Gustafson et al., 2001;
Gustafson et al., 2005a
8 0–4 .86
   Health Information Competence Gustafson et al., 2001;
Gustafson et al., 2005a
5 0–4 .73
   Barriers to Information Gustafson et al., 2001;
Gustafson et al., 2005a
3 0–4 .84
   Social Support Gustafson et al., 2005a 6 0–4 .88