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Assessment of perceived support in the context of emergency: Development and validation of the psycho-social support scale
In research and clinical contexts, it is important to briefly evaluate perceived Psychological and Social Support (PSS) to plan psychological interventions and allocate efforts and resources. However, an appropriate brief assessment tool for PSS was lacking. This study aimed at developing a brief an...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9243771/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35789631 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12144-022-03344-z |
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author | Panzeri, Anna Bettinardi, Ornella Bottesi, Gioia Bertolotti, Giorgio Brambatti, Luca Monfredo, Michela Mignemi, Giuseppe Bruno, Giovanni Vidotto, Giulio Spoto, Andrea Frattola, Paola Chiesa, Silvia |
author_facet | Panzeri, Anna Bettinardi, Ornella Bottesi, Gioia Bertolotti, Giorgio Brambatti, Luca Monfredo, Michela Mignemi, Giuseppe Bruno, Giovanni Vidotto, Giulio Spoto, Andrea Frattola, Paola Chiesa, Silvia |
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description | In research and clinical contexts, it is important to briefly evaluate perceived Psychological and Social Support (PSS) to plan psychological interventions and allocate efforts and resources. However, an appropriate brief assessment tool for PSS was lacking. This study aimed at developing a brief and accurate scale to specifically measure PSS in clinical and emergency contexts, with specific, relevant, targeted, and irredundant items. Experienced clinicians developed the perceived Psycho-Social Support Scale (PSSS) and administered it to a clinical sample (N = 112) seeking psychological help during the COVID-19 emergency. A Confirmatory Factor Analysis examined the PSSS internal structure, and a Multiple Indicator and Multiple Causes model investigated its association with the number of sessions and emotional symptoms. The PSSS showed good psychometric properties and the Confirmatory Factor Analysis provided acceptable fit indexes for a unidimensional structure. The Multiple Indicators and Multiple Causes revealed that more sessions and emotional symptoms were associated with lower PSSS scores. The PSSS is a reliable brief tool to measure PS and could be useful to individualize treatments (i.e., number of sessions) to efficiently allocate efforts and resources in clinical contexts and emergencies (e.g., earthquake, COVID-19 pandemic). SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s12144-022-03344-z. |
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spelling | pubmed-92437712022-06-30 Assessment of perceived support in the context of emergency: Development and validation of the psycho-social support scale Panzeri, Anna Bettinardi, Ornella Bottesi, Gioia Bertolotti, Giorgio Brambatti, Luca Monfredo, Michela Mignemi, Giuseppe Bruno, Giovanni Vidotto, Giulio Spoto, Andrea Frattola, Paola Chiesa, Silvia Curr Psychol Article In research and clinical contexts, it is important to briefly evaluate perceived Psychological and Social Support (PSS) to plan psychological interventions and allocate efforts and resources. However, an appropriate brief assessment tool for PSS was lacking. This study aimed at developing a brief and accurate scale to specifically measure PSS in clinical and emergency contexts, with specific, relevant, targeted, and irredundant items. Experienced clinicians developed the perceived Psycho-Social Support Scale (PSSS) and administered it to a clinical sample (N = 112) seeking psychological help during the COVID-19 emergency. A Confirmatory Factor Analysis examined the PSSS internal structure, and a Multiple Indicator and Multiple Causes model investigated its association with the number of sessions and emotional symptoms. The PSSS showed good psychometric properties and the Confirmatory Factor Analysis provided acceptable fit indexes for a unidimensional structure. The Multiple Indicators and Multiple Causes revealed that more sessions and emotional symptoms were associated with lower PSSS scores. The PSSS is a reliable brief tool to measure PS and could be useful to individualize treatments (i.e., number of sessions) to efficiently allocate efforts and resources in clinical contexts and emergencies (e.g., earthquake, COVID-19 pandemic). SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s12144-022-03344-z. Springer US 2022-06-26 /pmc/articles/PMC9243771/ /pubmed/35789631 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12144-022-03344-z Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Panzeri, Anna Bettinardi, Ornella Bottesi, Gioia Bertolotti, Giorgio Brambatti, Luca Monfredo, Michela Mignemi, Giuseppe Bruno, Giovanni Vidotto, Giulio Spoto, Andrea Frattola, Paola Chiesa, Silvia Assessment of perceived support in the context of emergency: Development and validation of the psycho-social support scale |
title | Assessment of perceived support in the context of emergency: Development and validation of the psycho-social support scale |
title_full | Assessment of perceived support in the context of emergency: Development and validation of the psycho-social support scale |
title_fullStr | Assessment of perceived support in the context of emergency: Development and validation of the psycho-social support scale |
title_full_unstemmed | Assessment of perceived support in the context of emergency: Development and validation of the psycho-social support scale |
title_short | Assessment of perceived support in the context of emergency: Development and validation of the psycho-social support scale |
title_sort | assessment of perceived support in the context of emergency: development and validation of the psycho-social support scale |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9243771/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35789631 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12144-022-03344-z |
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