Validación de una escala sobre promoción de estilos de vida saludables y sostenibles en universidades. Estudio piloto

Introduction: As an institution of higher education, the university has a duty, in addition to its teaching and research functions, to lead social change aimed at consolidating healthy lifestyles and promoting sustainability. Objective: To design and validate an instrument that assesses the actions or strategies undertaken by universities to promote and consolidate active, healthy and sustainable lifestyles. Methodology: In order to develop the items of the scale, qualitative work was carried out. Eight experts participated in the study, which resulted in the drafting of 13 items. After a pilot study, fieldwork was carried out based on various analyses to check the normality of the items. An exploratory factor analysis was then carried out, followed by the calculation of validity, reliability and common bias. Finally, a confirmatory factor analysis was conducted. Results: Two items were discarded from the original items and after descriptive analyses. An exploratory analysis was carried out. This resulted in two distinct factors explaining 63.66% of the variance. The validity and reliability tests showed correct results, as did the exploratory factor analysis. Conclusions: It can be stated that the resulting tool assesses universities' strategies to promote and consolidate active, healthy and sustainable lifestyles. The scale has two dimensions: promotion of healthy and sustainable lifestyles; and physical activity services.