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Validity and Reliability of Cultural Mix Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations among Healthcare Professionals in Ghana Amidst COVID-19

The Cultural Mix Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations is one of the recent coping measures developed to overcome the weaknesses of existing coping scales. Since its development and validation, the inventory has been used by previous studies to measure coping among teachers and students in stres...

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Autores principales: Ankomah, Francis, Quansah, Frank, Agormedah, Edmond Kwesi, Hagan, John Elvis, Srem-Sai, Medina, Sambah, Francis, Seidu, Abdul-Aziz, Ameyaw, Edward Kwabena, Ahinkorah, Bright Opoku, Darteh, Eugene Kofuor Maafo, Schack, Thomas
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9518457/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36078368
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191710651
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author Ankomah, Francis
Quansah, Frank
Agormedah, Edmond Kwesi
Hagan, John Elvis
Srem-Sai, Medina
Sambah, Francis
Seidu, Abdul-Aziz
Ameyaw, Edward Kwabena
Ahinkorah, Bright Opoku
Darteh, Eugene Kofuor Maafo
Schack, Thomas
author_facet Ankomah, Francis
Quansah, Frank
Agormedah, Edmond Kwesi
Hagan, John Elvis
Srem-Sai, Medina
Sambah, Francis
Seidu, Abdul-Aziz
Ameyaw, Edward Kwabena
Ahinkorah, Bright Opoku
Darteh, Eugene Kofuor Maafo
Schack, Thomas
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description The Cultural Mix Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations is one of the recent coping measures developed to overcome the weaknesses of existing coping scales. Since its development and validation, the inventory has been used by previous studies to measure coping among teachers and students in stressful situations. Health professionals are workers who typically encounter stressful situations due to their work demands. In this study, we assessed the validity and reliability of cultural mix inventory for stressful situations among healthcare professionals in Ghana. The research was guided by three major objectives: (1) to assess the factor structure of the cultural mix coping inventory, (2) to evaluate the construct validity and reliability of the cultural mix coping inventory based on internal structure and (3) to test for evidence of criterion validity based on the external structure of the measure. Approximately 312 health workers were purposefully sampled to participate in the study. The study confirmed the original four-factor solution of the coping inventory with evidence of the construct validity based on the internal structure. Validity evidence based on the external structure of the measure was found to be sufficient. Given the COVID-19 pandemic and coupled with the stressful nature in the line of duty of healthcare professionals, this inventory provides a useful and sound measure of coping options among this cohort.
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spelling pubmed-95184572022-09-29 Validity and Reliability of Cultural Mix Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations among Healthcare Professionals in Ghana Amidst COVID-19 Ankomah, Francis Quansah, Frank Agormedah, Edmond Kwesi Hagan, John Elvis Srem-Sai, Medina Sambah, Francis Seidu, Abdul-Aziz Ameyaw, Edward Kwabena Ahinkorah, Bright Opoku Darteh, Eugene Kofuor Maafo Schack, Thomas Int J Environ Res Public Health Article The Cultural Mix Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations is one of the recent coping measures developed to overcome the weaknesses of existing coping scales. Since its development and validation, the inventory has been used by previous studies to measure coping among teachers and students in stressful situations. Health professionals are workers who typically encounter stressful situations due to their work demands. In this study, we assessed the validity and reliability of cultural mix inventory for stressful situations among healthcare professionals in Ghana. The research was guided by three major objectives: (1) to assess the factor structure of the cultural mix coping inventory, (2) to evaluate the construct validity and reliability of the cultural mix coping inventory based on internal structure and (3) to test for evidence of criterion validity based on the external structure of the measure. Approximately 312 health workers were purposefully sampled to participate in the study. The study confirmed the original four-factor solution of the coping inventory with evidence of the construct validity based on the internal structure. Validity evidence based on the external structure of the measure was found to be sufficient. Given the COVID-19 pandemic and coupled with the stressful nature in the line of duty of healthcare professionals, this inventory provides a useful and sound measure of coping options among this cohort. MDPI 2022-08-26 /pmc/articles/PMC9518457/ /pubmed/36078368 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191710651 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Ankomah, Francis
Quansah, Frank
Agormedah, Edmond Kwesi
Hagan, John Elvis
Srem-Sai, Medina
Sambah, Francis
Seidu, Abdul-Aziz
Ameyaw, Edward Kwabena
Ahinkorah, Bright Opoku
Darteh, Eugene Kofuor Maafo
Schack, Thomas
Validity and Reliability of Cultural Mix Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations among Healthcare Professionals in Ghana Amidst COVID-19
title Validity and Reliability of Cultural Mix Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations among Healthcare Professionals in Ghana Amidst COVID-19
title_full Validity and Reliability of Cultural Mix Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations among Healthcare Professionals in Ghana Amidst COVID-19
title_fullStr Validity and Reliability of Cultural Mix Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations among Healthcare Professionals in Ghana Amidst COVID-19
title_full_unstemmed Validity and Reliability of Cultural Mix Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations among Healthcare Professionals in Ghana Amidst COVID-19
title_short Validity and Reliability of Cultural Mix Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations among Healthcare Professionals in Ghana Amidst COVID-19
title_sort validity and reliability of cultural mix coping inventory for stressful situations among healthcare professionals in ghana amidst covid-19
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9518457/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36078368
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191710651
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