Pandemic process status questionnaire: Development and psychometric properties

Abstract

The pandemic process has caused significant changes in many areas of daily life. The aim is to develop a new questionnaire to evaluate the changes that occurred during the pandemic process and to examine the psychometric properties of this questionnaire. For face validity, 10 individuals were asked to interpret the questions. The Pandemic Process Status Questionnaire was tested with the help of a questionnaire created with the help of Google Forms. In order to evaluate the content validity, the content validity index and content validity ratio were used in line with the opinions of 7 experts. A pilot test was carried out. Exploratory factor analysis was performed for construct validity. The World Health Organization Quality of Life-brief version was used for convergence validity. A total of 25 items with an impact score of less than 1.5 in face validity were deleted. According to the content validity index, 15 items and 21 items according to the content validity rate were removed. In the pilot application, 5 items with an item-total correlation below 0.3 were deleted. The results of the exploratory factor analysis provided 6 dimensions: general status, physical status, psychological status, social and economic status, concerns about the pandemic, and eating habits. This structure explained 71.77% of the total variance. The questionnaire showed a weak correlation with the World Health Organization quality of life-Short Form (r=0.26). The Pandemic Process Status Questionnaire is a short and valid tool to summarize the situation encountered during the pandemic process.