Validation of a short scale for measuring the level of basic knowledge about Coronavirus, Peru (KNOW-P-COVID-19)

Validation of a short scale for measuring the level of basic knowledge about Coronavirus, Peru (KNOW-P-COVID-19)

Christian R. Mejia, J. Franco Rodriguez - Alarcon, Macarena Carbajal, Jhesly Sifuentes - Rosales, Alejandra M. Campos-Urbina, Julio C. Charri, Lizet Garay-Rios, Ali Al-Kassab-Cordova, Oscar Mamani-Benito, Edison Effer Apaza-Tarqui

The coronavirus has generated the last pandemic, therefore, knowing this disease is important in all populations. For this, a short scale was validated to measure basic knowledge about Coronavirus (KNOW-P-COVID-19). First, it carried out a bibliographic search, then it was systematized and obtained the most important aspects, then a validation of the construct with experts, then exploratory factor analysis and the survey was applied to a large Peruvian population group. All items received a favorable evaluation from the experts (Aiken's V> 0.70); all the lower limit values (Li) of the 95% CI are appropriate (Li> 0.59) and all the values of the V coefficient were statistically significant. In the Exploratory Factor Analysis (AFE), the KMO Coefficient = 0.690 and the p value of the chi square

2020

coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, Estudios de Validación, pandemias, conocimiento

10.5281/zenodo.3827988

Kasmera

Universidad de Zulia

Public aspects of medicine, Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine