A brief measure of hospital anxiety: design and preliminary psychometric analysis of a scale.

• Autores: Basauri Delgado, Miguel Angel, Chirio Aldazabal, Diego Bernardo, Colonia Zevallos, Amador Fernando
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2022
• Institución: Universidad Católica Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo
• Repositorio: Revistas - Universidad Católica Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:revistasusat:article/758
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistas.usat.edu.pe/index.php/cietna/article/view/758
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Anxiety; Reliability and Validity; Nurses; Physicians; Ansiedad; Confiabilidad y Validez; Enfermeros; Médicos

Objective: Objective: To establish a preliminary psychometric analysis of a brief hospital anxiety scale. Method: Non-experimental study of instrumental design, with a unit of analysis of 60 participants, who were nurses and physicians from a hospital in Metropolitan Lima. Main results: The final version was reduced to 9 items, obtaining adequate evidence of content validity by the criterion of expert judges (V > .80). The evidence of construct validity showed a unidimensional model that explains 72.5% of the variance, with factor loadings greater than .30 (.773 to .939). The reliability found was for internal consistency with acceptable values (α=.958; ω=.959; θ=.957). General conclusion: The EAH-9 constitutes a preliminary alternative with evidence of validity and reliability for the analysis of anxiety in hospital professionals.