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COmpliance with pandemic COmmands Scale (COCOS): The relationship between compliance with COVID-19 measures and sociodemographic and attitudinal variables

Several studies in different countries have reported that part of the population does not fully comply with the measures recommended to prevent COVID-19, and therefore poses a risk to public health. For this reason, several measures have been developed to assess the level of compliance, although man...

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Autores principales: Morales-Vives, Fabia, Dueñas, Jorge-Manuel, Ferrando, Pere J., Vigil-Colet, Andreu, Varea, Maria Dolores
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Publicado: Public Library of Science 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8769316/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35045104
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0262698
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author Morales-Vives, Fabia
Dueñas, Jorge-Manuel
Ferrando, Pere J.
Vigil-Colet, Andreu
Varea, Maria Dolores
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Dueñas, Jorge-Manuel
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description Several studies in different countries have reported that part of the population does not fully comply with the measures recommended to prevent COVID-19, and therefore poses a risk to public health. For this reason, several measures have been developed to assess the level of compliance, although many of them have methodological limitations or do not include a comprehensive set of items. The main goal of the current study was to develop a new instrument with suitable psychometric properties, which includes a more complete set of items and controls the impact of acquiescence bias. The participants were 1410 individuals (59.2% women) from Spain, who answered the new questionnaire and several items on sociodemographic and attitudinal issues. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were carried out, and the results suggested that only one content factor was underlying the data. This solution was replicated in a different subsample, which shows the stability of the solution. Furthermore, the relationships between the scores of the new questionnaire and the sociodemographic and attitudinal variables are similar to those obtained in previous studies, which can be regarded as evidence of the validity of the new questionnaire.
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spelling pubmed-87693162022-01-20 COmpliance with pandemic COmmands Scale (COCOS): The relationship between compliance with COVID-19 measures and sociodemographic and attitudinal variables Morales-Vives, Fabia Dueñas, Jorge-Manuel Ferrando, Pere J. Vigil-Colet, Andreu Varea, Maria Dolores PLoS One Research Article Several studies in different countries have reported that part of the population does not fully comply with the measures recommended to prevent COVID-19, and therefore poses a risk to public health. For this reason, several measures have been developed to assess the level of compliance, although many of them have methodological limitations or do not include a comprehensive set of items. The main goal of the current study was to develop a new instrument with suitable psychometric properties, which includes a more complete set of items and controls the impact of acquiescence bias. The participants were 1410 individuals (59.2% women) from Spain, who answered the new questionnaire and several items on sociodemographic and attitudinal issues. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were carried out, and the results suggested that only one content factor was underlying the data. This solution was replicated in a different subsample, which shows the stability of the solution. Furthermore, the relationships between the scores of the new questionnaire and the sociodemographic and attitudinal variables are similar to those obtained in previous studies, which can be regarded as evidence of the validity of the new questionnaire. Public Library of Science 2022-01-19 /pmc/articles/PMC8769316/ /pubmed/35045104 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0262698 Text en © 2022 Morales-Vives et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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COmpliance with pandemic COmmands Scale (COCOS): The relationship between compliance with COVID-19 measures and sociodemographic and attitudinal variables
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title_full COmpliance with pandemic COmmands Scale (COCOS): The relationship between compliance with COVID-19 measures and sociodemographic and attitudinal variables
title_fullStr COmpliance with pandemic COmmands Scale (COCOS): The relationship between compliance with COVID-19 measures and sociodemographic and attitudinal variables
title_full_unstemmed COmpliance with pandemic COmmands Scale (COCOS): The relationship between compliance with COVID-19 measures and sociodemographic and attitudinal variables
title_short COmpliance with pandemic COmmands Scale (COCOS): The relationship between compliance with COVID-19 measures and sociodemographic and attitudinal variables
title_sort compliance with pandemic commands scale (cocos): the relationship between compliance with covid-19 measures and sociodemographic and attitudinal variables
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8769316/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35045104
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0262698
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