Validation of coronavirus-2019 phobia scale using preschool practitioners in urban and rural communities in Nigeria: Implication for educational sociologists

Coronavirus-2019 (COVID-19) emerged in December 2019, causing significant changes in people's social lives and other human activities. The outbreak halted educational activities throughout the world. The Nigerian experience was unique in that most people were skeptical about the pandemic's...

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Published in:Medicine (Baltimore) 2022-05, Vol.101 (20), p.e29209-e29209
Main Authors: Ugwu, Gloria C., Ugwuanyi, Christian S., Aye, Eucharia N., Eze, Celestine O., Ohia, Nkiru Christiana, Okenyi, Emmanuel C., Oforka, Theresa O., Oraelosi, Charles A., Njoku, Obiageli C., Ezema, Victor S., Ifekoya, Kelechi O., Nwoga, Chinyere Theresa, Okondugba, Alexander, Onumonu, Julia Amobi, Ohaneme, Rosemary Chinyere, Ezeah, Malachy A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Child, Preschool
COVID-19 - diagnosis
COVID-19 - epidemiology
Humans
Nigeria - epidemiology
Observational Study
Phobic Disorders
Psychometrics
Reproducibility of Results
Rural Population
School Teachers
Surveys and Questionnaires
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Summary:Coronavirus-2019 (COVID-19) emerged in December 2019, causing significant changes in people's social lives and other human activities. The outbreak halted educational activities throughout the world. The Nigerian experience was unique in that most people were skeptical about the pandemic's existence. This practice contributed to the Nigerian people's fear of the COVID-19 outbreak. However, in Nigeria, there has never been a validated or established Covid-19 phobia scale, necessitating this study.This study was a pure validation study on COVID-19 phobia scale (C19PS). The study area was south-east states and a sample of 386 preschool practitioners in urban and rural communities of South East States, Nigeria participated in the study. The eligibility criteria include being a preschool teacher and demonstrating signs of COVID-19 phobia. The validation of the C19PS was done by subjecting the data gathered to principal axis factoring analysis with varimax rotation. The model fit for the data was tested using root mean square error of approximation and comparative fit index.It was found that the Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin value of .845 for the measure of the adequacy of the sample size. There was also a significant Bartlett's test of sphericity (P 
ISSN:0025-7974
1536-5964
DOI:10.1097/MD.0000000000029209