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Psychometric properties and clinical utility of COVID-19-related distress scale among children and adolescents with Disabilities

BACKGROUND: The aim was to estimate the psychometric properties of the COVID-19-related distress scale in our society, as well as verifying the global structure of the COVID-19-related distress scale through exploratory factor analysis and the confirmatory factor analysis model for the dimensions pr...

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Autor principal: Alzahrani, Mohammed R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Author. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9364742/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35985152
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103705
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description BACKGROUND: The aim was to estimate the psychometric properties of the COVID-19-related distress scale in our society, as well as verifying the global structure of the COVID-19-related distress scale through exploratory factor analysis and the confirmatory factor analysis model for the dimensions prepared in the light of previous studies and the general factor model. METHODS: The study follows the design of the exploratory cross-sectional studies by applying a scale electronically using the Google Forms tool. Construct validity was evaluated using confirmatory factor analysis, exploratory factor analysis, and content validity. Pearson product-moment correlation, Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficient, and test-retest methods were used to evaluate reliability. RESULTS: In the analysis made for internal consistency in the reliability study of the scale, the Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficients were determined as α = 0.93 for the physical dimension subscale, 0.90 for the psychological and emotional dimension, 0.92 for cognitive dimension, 0.91 for the social dimension, 0.92 for behavioral dimension, 0.87 for living Dimension and 0.94 for the whole scale. The total number of items on the scale is 62. It is clear that the items of the scale explained 55.49 % of the variance of the correlation matrix between the items, which indicates that the scale has an appropriate degree to extract the variance that explains COVID-19-related distress. The fit indices were found to be Chi square = 862.30 (p < .001), degree of freedom = 210 (χ2 = 862.30; df = 210, χ2/df = 4.10), root mean square error of approximation (RMSEA) = 0.07 (p < .05) standardized root mean- square residual (SRMR) = 0.05, comparative fit index (CFI) = 0.92, non-normed fit index (NNFI) = 0.95, goodness of fit index (GFI) = 0.95, and adjusted goodness of fit index (AGFI) = 0.94. CONCLUSIONS: The COVID-19-related distress scale is an easy to administer, valid, and reliable instrument to assess COVID-19-related distress. This instrument can be a helpful tool informing us about distress related to COVID-19 and hence may prevent adverse long-term consequences arising due to pandemic.
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spelling pubmed-93647422022-08-10 Psychometric properties and clinical utility of COVID-19-related distress scale among children and adolescents with Disabilities Alzahrani, Mohammed R. Acta Psychol (Amst) Article BACKGROUND: The aim was to estimate the psychometric properties of the COVID-19-related distress scale in our society, as well as verifying the global structure of the COVID-19-related distress scale through exploratory factor analysis and the confirmatory factor analysis model for the dimensions prepared in the light of previous studies and the general factor model. METHODS: The study follows the design of the exploratory cross-sectional studies by applying a scale electronically using the Google Forms tool. Construct validity was evaluated using confirmatory factor analysis, exploratory factor analysis, and content validity. Pearson product-moment correlation, Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficient, and test-retest methods were used to evaluate reliability. RESULTS: In the analysis made for internal consistency in the reliability study of the scale, the Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficients were determined as α = 0.93 for the physical dimension subscale, 0.90 for the psychological and emotional dimension, 0.92 for cognitive dimension, 0.91 for the social dimension, 0.92 for behavioral dimension, 0.87 for living Dimension and 0.94 for the whole scale. The total number of items on the scale is 62. It is clear that the items of the scale explained 55.49 % of the variance of the correlation matrix between the items, which indicates that the scale has an appropriate degree to extract the variance that explains COVID-19-related distress. The fit indices were found to be Chi square = 862.30 (p < .001), degree of freedom = 210 (χ2 = 862.30; df = 210, χ2/df = 4.10), root mean square error of approximation (RMSEA) = 0.07 (p < .05) standardized root mean- square residual (SRMR) = 0.05, comparative fit index (CFI) = 0.92, non-normed fit index (NNFI) = 0.95, goodness of fit index (GFI) = 0.95, and adjusted goodness of fit index (AGFI) = 0.94. CONCLUSIONS: The COVID-19-related distress scale is an easy to administer, valid, and reliable instrument to assess COVID-19-related distress. This instrument can be a helpful tool informing us about distress related to COVID-19 and hence may prevent adverse long-term consequences arising due to pandemic. The Author. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2022-09 2022-08-10 /pmc/articles/PMC9364742/ /pubmed/35985152 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103705 Text en © 2022 The Author Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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title_fullStr Psychometric properties and clinical utility of COVID-19-related distress scale among children and adolescents with Disabilities
title_full_unstemmed Psychometric properties and clinical utility of COVID-19-related distress scale among children and adolescents with Disabilities
title_short Psychometric properties and clinical utility of COVID-19-related distress scale among children and adolescents with Disabilities
title_sort psychometric properties and clinical utility of covid-19-related distress scale among children and adolescents with disabilities
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9364742/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35985152
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103705
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