Author(s):
1. Gürkan ÖZDENI:
İnönü University Faculty of Nursing, Department of Internal Medicine Nursing, Malatya, Turkey.
2. Seher ÇEVİK AKTURA:
İnönü University Faculty of Nursing, Department of Fundamental of Nursing, Malatya, Turkey.
Abstract:
Aim: To test the Turkish validity and reliability of the fear of COVID-19 scale. Methods: The study was done as a validity and reliability study. This study was conducted with 1281 students who were studied in a nursing faculty of a university in Turkey between May and June 2020. Cronbach Alpha and itemtotal correlation were used for internal consistency, reliability and in-class correlation coefficients for scale validity, and Bartlett test and Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) were used for scale validity. Results: It was found that KMO test was significant at 0.89, Bartlett's test was significant on the level of p: .001 and Cronbach alpha internal consistency reliability coefficient is 0.91. the scale covered sole factor and accounted for 61.43% of the total variance. Conclusion: As a result of this research, Fear of COVID-19 Scale was found to be a reliable and valid measurement tool.
Page(s):
1078-1081
DOI:
DOI not available
Published:
Journal: Pakistan Journal of Medical and Health Sciences, Volume: 14, Issue: 3, Year: 2020
Keywords:
COVID19
,
Fear
,
pandemics
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