Questionnaire on Perception of Threat from COVID-19
The ravages caused by the disease known as COVID-19 has led to a worldwide healthcare and social emergency requiring an effective combined effort from everyone to reduce contagion. Under these circumstances, the perception of the disease is going to have a relevant role in the individual’s psycholog...
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| author | Pérez Fuentes, María Del Carmen Molero Jurado, María del Mar Oropesa Ruiz, Nieves Fátima Martos Martínez, África Simón Márquez, María del Mar Herrera Peco, Iván Gázquez Linares, José Jesús |
| author_facet | Pérez Fuentes, María Del Carmen Molero Jurado, María del Mar Oropesa Ruiz, Nieves Fátima Martos Martínez, África Simón Márquez, María del Mar Herrera Peco, Iván Gázquez Linares, José Jesús |
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| description | The ravages caused by the disease known as COVID-19 has led to a worldwide healthcare and social emergency requiring an effective combined effort from everyone to reduce contagion. Under these circumstances, the perception of the disease is going to have a relevant role in the individual’s psychological adjustment. However, at the present time there is no validated instrument for evaluating adult perception of threat from COVID-19. Considering the importance of perception or representation of the disease in a state of social alert, our study intended to validate an instrument measuring the psychological process of the disease caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19). In view of the above, this study evaluated the factor structure and reliability of the version of the Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ) for COVID-19 in a sample of adults. The sample consisted of 1014 Spanish adults (67.2% women and 32.8% men). The exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses supported a unidimensional model of the scale, which was the one that showed the best fit and explained 43.87% of the variance. This brief version has adequate psychometric properties and may be used to evaluate the perception of threat from COVID-19 in an adult Spanish population. The validation of this instrument contributes to progress in representation of COVID-19 in our culture. |
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| spelling | oai:repositorio.ual.es:10835-81112023-04-12T19:43:24Z Questionnaire on Perception of Threat from COVID-19 Pérez Fuentes, María Del Carmen Molero Jurado, María del Mar Oropesa Ruiz, Nieves Fátima Martos Martínez, África Simón Márquez, María del Mar Herrera Peco, Iván Gázquez Linares, José Jesús adults COVID-19 perceived threat of disease psychometric properties The ravages caused by the disease known as COVID-19 has led to a worldwide healthcare and social emergency requiring an effective combined effort from everyone to reduce contagion. Under these circumstances, the perception of the disease is going to have a relevant role in the individual’s psychological adjustment. However, at the present time there is no validated instrument for evaluating adult perception of threat from COVID-19. Considering the importance of perception or representation of the disease in a state of social alert, our study intended to validate an instrument measuring the psychological process of the disease caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19). In view of the above, this study evaluated the factor structure and reliability of the version of the Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ) for COVID-19 in a sample of adults. The sample consisted of 1014 Spanish adults (67.2% women and 32.8% men). The exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses supported a unidimensional model of the scale, which was the one that showed the best fit and explained 43.87% of the variance. This brief version has adequate psychometric properties and may be used to evaluate the perception of threat from COVID-19 in an adult Spanish population. The validation of this instrument contributes to progress in representation of COVID-19 in our culture. 2020-04-28T09:01:37Z 2020-04-28T09:01:37Z 2020-04-22 info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2077-0383 http://hdl.handle.net/10835/8111 en https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/9/4/1196 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess MDPI |
| spellingShingle | adults COVID-19 perceived threat of disease psychometric properties Pérez Fuentes, María Del Carmen Molero Jurado, María del Mar Oropesa Ruiz, Nieves Fátima Martos Martínez, África Simón Márquez, María del Mar Herrera Peco, Iván Gázquez Linares, José Jesús Questionnaire on Perception of Threat from COVID-19 |
| title | Questionnaire on Perception of Threat from COVID-19 |
| title_full | Questionnaire on Perception of Threat from COVID-19 |
| title_fullStr | Questionnaire on Perception of Threat from COVID-19 |
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| title_short | Questionnaire on Perception of Threat from COVID-19 |
| title_sort | questionnaire on perception of threat from covid-19 |
| topic | adults COVID-19 perceived threat of disease psychometric properties |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10835/8111 |
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