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Development and Validation of a Questionnaire to Measure Knowledge of and Attitude toward COVID-19 among Nursing Students in Greece.
- Source :
- Nursing Reports; Dec2020, Vol. 10 Issue 2, p82-94, 13p
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, nursing students have had a key role in supporting the healthcare sector. They can join healthcare professionals in clinical practice or provide information to increase citizens' levels of knowledge and their compliance with the restriction measures. The study aimed to develop and validate a tool to measure knowledge of and attitudes toward COVID-19 among nursing students in Greece. Methods: A questionnaire was developed through theoretical research and expert consultation. A cross-sectional study was conducted among 348 undergraduate nursing students of the Department of Nursing, Hellenic Mediterranean University, recruited by convenient sampling. Validity and reliability were analyzed. Results: The Kaiser–Meyer–Olkin measure was 0.84, indicating that the sample size was adequate for factor analysis. In addition, the p-value for Bartlett's test of sphericity was <0.001, denoting that the correlation matrix was suitable for factor analysis. The construct validity of the questionnaire was determined through exploratory factor analysis (EFA), which revealed that 16 items lead to four factors: knowledge, attitude toward restriction measures, compliance with them, and volunteering. One of the key findings of this study was that participants preferred to receive information from valid sources rather than social media during the crucial period of the "infodemic". Conclusions: The questionnaire was shown to have satisfying psychometric properties and, therefore, can be used as a tool in future research in the area of nursing students' knowledge, attitudes, compliance, and volunteering during the COVID-19 pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- CONCEPTUAL structures
CONFIDENCE intervals
STATISTICAL correlation
TEST validity
EXPERIMENTAL design
FACTOR analysis
RESEARCH methodology
MULTIVARIATE analysis
NURSE supply & demand
NURSING students
PATIENT compliance
PSYCHOMETRICS
QUESTIONNAIRES
REGRESSION analysis
RESEARCH
RESEARCH evaluation
STATISTICAL sampling
STATISTICAL hypothesis testing
STATISTICS
T-test (Statistics)
PILOT projects
DATA analysis
MULTITRAIT multimethod techniques
UNDERGRADUATES
CROSS-sectional method
HEALTH literacy
RESEARCH methodology evaluation
DATA analysis software
PATIENTS' attitudes
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
ODDS ratio
ATTITUDES toward illness
COVID-19
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 2039439X
- Volume :
- 10
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Nursing Reports
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 148287605
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/nursrep10020012