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This research has been carried out with the purpose of adapting Beliefs and Attitudes Towards Marriage: Health Belief Model Instrument to the Turkish society by its validity and reliability analysis. The data for the methodological study was collected at Mother and Child Health Center No 9 in Bornova Health District and at Marriage Office of Bornova Municipality in Izmir. The population of the research was consisted of engaged couples n=419 who applied for health certificate before marriage ceremony to the health center and marriage office. The sample group of the research was composed of 230 engaged women/men who were selected with unprobability sampling technique and volunteered to participate in the research. Sociodemographic questionnaire form and 23-item Marriage Beliefs and Attitudes: Health Belief Model Scale covering four sub-factors which was developed by Sullivan and et.al 2004 were used as tools for the data collection. The validity of the instrument in terms of language and content validity were ensured of Marriage Beliefs and Attitudes: Health Belief Model Scale. General Cronbach’s alpha co-efficient of the instrument was found to be 0.72, Guttman Split – half value was 0.70 for the first half and 0.66 for the second half Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin 0.78 and Bartletts Test of Sphericity X²=2264.81 p

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