@Article{ijmhp.2022.021172,
AUTHOR = {Mely Ruiz-Aquino, Viter Gerson Carlos Trinidad, Aldo Alvarez-Risco, Jaime A. Yáñez},
TITLE = {Properties of a Scale of Self-Care Behaviors Facing COVID-19: An Exploratory Analysis in a Sample of University Students in Huanuco, Peru},
JOURNAL = {International Journal of Mental Health Promotion},
VOLUME = {24},
YEAR = {2022},
NUMBER = {6},
PAGES = {959--974},
URL = {http://www.techscience.com/IJMHP/v24n6/49950},
ISSN = {2049-8543},
ABSTRACT = {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 X<sup>²</sup> = 4611 with
a <i>p</i>-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.},
DOI = {10.32604/ijmhp.2022.021172}
}