TY - EJOU
AU - Ruiz-Aquino, Mely
AU - Trinidad, Viter Gerson Carlos
AU - Alvarez-Risco, Aldo
AU - Yáñez, Jaime A.
TI - Properties of a Scale of Self-Care Behaviors Facing COVID-19: An Exploratory Analysis in a Sample of University Students in Huanuco, Peru
T2 - International Journal of Mental Health Promotion
PY - 2022
VL - 24
IS - 6
SN - 2049-8543
AB - The general objective of this article was to construct and describe the psychometric properties of a scale of selfcare behaviors against COVID-19. It was a descriptive, cross-sectional, psychometric validation study of a scale
created to measure self-care behaviors in relation to COVID-19 in a total sample of 333 probabilistically selected.
Qualitative validity was evaluated by a review of 10 experts and quantitative validity by means of exploratory factor analysis using the principal components method. Internal consistency was measured with Cronbach’s alpha
twice and the test-retest was evaluated by calculating the intraclass coefficient. The final scale consisted of 29 items.
The Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin test of adequacy yielded a value of 0.926, and the Bartlett’s test of sphericity X² = 4611 with
a p-value < 0.001. The variance explained by the three retained factors with a total of 29 items was 50.03%. The
Cronbach’s alpha internal consistency evaluation yielded an initial value of 0.923 and, in a second evaluation,
showed a value of 0.936. In addition, the intraclass coefficient in the test-retest yielded a value of 0.929. The
instrument created and validated possessed the necessary conditions as a useful and reliable tool for measuring
self-care behaviors in relation to COVID-19 in a population of university students and it is important that it can
be applied in other regions of the world.
KW - COVID-19; Peru; self-care; physical health; social health; mental health; validation; instrument
DO - 10.32604/ijmhp.2022.021172