1. COVID-19 contagion concern scale (PRE-COVID-19): Validation in Cuban patients with type 2 diabetes
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Enrique Rolando Pérez García, Luis Alberto Lazo Herrera, Ibraín Enrique Corrales-Reyes, Antonio Pupo Pérez, Patricia González Quintana, Tomás Caycho-Rodríguez, Frank Hernández-García, Lindsey W. Vilca, and Michael White
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Adult ,Male ,Generalized anxiety disorder ,Adolescent ,Psychometrics ,Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Population ,Anxiety ,Article ,Structural equation modeling ,Young Adult ,Diabetes mellitus ,Surveys and Questionnaires ,Item response theory ,Miedo ,Internal Medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,education ,Pandemics ,Reliability (statistics) ,Aged ,media_common ,Aged, 80 and over ,education.field_of_study ,business.industry ,COVID-19 ,Cuba ,General Medicine ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,Anxiety Disorders ,Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 ,Convergent validity ,Worry ,Female ,Pacientes ,medicine.symptom ,Covid-19 ,purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#5.01.02 [https] ,business ,Clinical psychology - Abstract
Aims It is important to have valid and reliable measures to determine the psychological impact of COVID-19 in patients with diabetes; however, few instruments have been developed and validated for this population. Therefore, the aim of this study was to validate the Scale of Worry for Contagion of COVID-19 (PRE-COVID-19) in a sample of patients with diabetes mellitus (DM). Materials and methods A total of 219 patients (66.2% female, mean age 58.5 SD = 18.2) participated, selected through non-probabilistic sampling. The PRE-COVID-19 and the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale-2 were applied. Reliability analysis was performed for internal consistency, structural equation modeling and item response theory modeling. Results The results show that a unidimensional 5-item model presents satisfactory goodness-of-fit indices and excellent reliability values. Likewise, convergent validity between the PRE-COVID-19 and a measure of anxiety is evident. All items present adequate discrimination parameters, allowing for discerning between those patients with critical concern about COVID-19 contagion from those with severe concern. Conclusion It is concluded that the PRE-COVID-19 is an instrument with adequate psychometric properties to measure concern about COVID-19 infection and the emotional impact in patients with DM. Revisión por pares Los Olivos
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- 2021
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