Portuguese version of the COVID-19 perceived risk scale – psychometric study

Autor:	Ana Cristina Araújo, C. Cabaços, Almerinda Pereira, Alice Lopes Macedo, R. Sousa, P. Paredes, T. Soares
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty Public health media_common.quotation_subject Validity Confirmatory factor analysis Exploratory factor analysis Risk perception Psychiatry and Mental health Cronbach's alpha Scale (social sciences) medicine Worry Psychology media_common Clinical psychology
Zdroj:	European Psychiatry. 64:S307-S307
ISSN:	1778-3585 0924-9338
DOI:	10.1192/j.eurpsy.2021.825
Popis:	IntroductionRisk perception of COVID-19 is potentially a significant determinant of the pandemic evolution and the public’s response to it. Acceptable levels of risk perception can be considered good for people to effectively fight the pandemic and adopt preventive health behaviors while high levels of risk perception may be damaging. Recently, Yıldırım&Güler (2020) developed the Covid-19 Perceived Risk Scale (C19PRS) to measure this construct.ObjectivesTo analyze the psychometric properties of the C19PRS Portuguese version, namely construct validity, internal consistency and convergent validity.MethodsA community sample of 234 adults (75.6% women; mean age= 29.53±12.51; range:16-71) completed an on-line survey with the Portuguese versions of the CPRS and the Fear of Covid-19 Scale (FCV-19S; Cabaços et al. 2020). The total sample was randomly divided in two sub-samples: sample A (n=117) was used to perform an exploratory factor analysis/EFA; sample B (n=117) to make a confirmatory factor analysis/CFA.ResultsEFA resulted in three components. CFA revealed that the second-order model with three factors presented good fit indexes (X2/df=1.471; CFI=.959; GFI=.948; TLI=.932; p[RMSEA≤.01]=.065). CPRS Cronbach alphas was α=.687; for F1 Worry, F2 Susceptibility to Covid-19 and F3 Susceptibility to Overall Morbimortality were α=.747, α=.813 and α=.543, respectively. The total and dimensional scores significantly correlated with FCV-19S (r>.30, pConclusionsThis study provides evidence for the validity and reliability of the Portuguese version of CPRS, which will be used in an ongoing research project on the relationship between Covid-19 perceived risk, perfectionism, cognitive processes and adherence to public health measures to contain the pandemic.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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