Design and psychometrics of the awareness and self-care performance questionnaire of patients with diabetes in the COVID-19 pandemic
نویسندگان
1 Master’s Student in Medical Surgical Nursing, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Student Research Committee, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran
2 Department of Community Medicine, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran
3 Department of Nursing, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran
4 Department of Nursing, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran
doi
10.34172/JHAD.92386چکیده
Background: The sudden emergence of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic worldwide has led to numerousproblems for patients with chronic diseases, such as diabetics, due to the lack of required information to deal with the disease. Thepresent research aims to investigate the design and psychometrics of the Awareness and Self-Care Performance Questionnaire ofdiabetic patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.Methods: The present methodological study aimed to investigate the design and psychometrics of the Awareness and Self-CarePerformance Questionnaire. The face and content validity were assessed through both quantitative and qualitative studies. Forthe quantitative study, 100 diabetic patients were randomly selected during the COVID-19 pandemic. The reliability of thequestionnaire was assessed using the internal consistency method by Cronbach’s alpha coefficient.Results: The original version of the questionnaire was designed with 82 items and the final version with 56 items (awareness [32items] and self-care performance [24 items]) with seven areas, including disease characteristics, prevention ways, ways of diseasetransmission, disease symptoms, disease risk factors, diet, and care methods. The content validity index (CVI) was 0.97, the contentvalidity ratio (CVR) was 0.93, and the internal consistency of the questionnaire was calculated to be 0.80 using Cronbach’s alphacoefficient, showing the appropriate validity and reliability of this questionnaire.Conclusion: The Awareness and Self-Care Performance Questionnaire of diabetic patients in the COVID-19 pandemic possessesthe required validity and reliability to evaluate the knowledge level of diabetic patients in infectious pandemics, such as COVID-19,and it has the applicability to be used in similar conditions. It is suggested that the questionnaire’s construct validity be measuredto enhance the content validit
