Impact of COVID-19 on quality of life in Peruvian older adults: construct validity, reliability and invariance of the COV19—Impact on Quality of Life (COV19-QoL) measurement

• Autores: Caycho-Rodríguez, Tomás, Carbajal-León, Carlos, Vilca, Lindsey W., Reyes-Bossio, Mario, Gallegos, Miguel, Esteban, Renzo Carranza, Noe-Grijalva, Martin, Gallegos, Walter L.Arias, Delgado-Campusano, Mariel, Muñoz-del-Carpio-Toia, Águeda
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2023
• Institución: Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas
• Repositorio: UPC-Institucional
• Lenguaje: inglés
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorioacademico.upc.edu.pe:10757/668584
• Enlace del recurso: http://hdl.handle.net/10757/668584
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: COV19-QoL; Older adults; Quality of life; Validity; Translate; Psychometric evidence; Peruvian older adults; Classical Test Theory (CTT); Item Response Theory (IRT); Single factor structure; Measurement invariance; COVID-19 pandemic impact; Quality of life (COV19-QoL)

The aim of the present study was to translate into Spanish and evaluate the psychometric evidence of the Impact on Quality of Life (COV19-QoL) applied to a sample of Peruvian older adults (N = 298; 58.1% women, 41.9% men, mean age 65.34 years [SD = 11.33]). The study used techniques from the Classical Test Theory (CTT) and Item Response Theory (IRT). The findings confirmed the single factor structure of the COV19-QoL, high internal consistency reliability, measurement invariance by gender, and all items demonstrated adequate discrimination and difficulty indices. In this sense, the items allow adequate discrimination between low, medium and high levels of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on quality of life. In addition, a greater perceived impact of the pandemic on quality of life is necessary to answer the higher response options of the COV19-QoL. In conclusion, the COV19-QoL is a valid measurement scale of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the quality of life of Peruvian older adults.