Conocimientos sobre COVID-19 que tiene la población económicamente activa del Perú: Estudio de validación (KNOW-PER-COV)

• Autores: Mejía, Christian R., Barreda-Catacora, Sebastián Orlando, Chavez, Jafet J., Sarapura, Carolina, Armada, José, Carranza-Esteban, Renzo Felipe, Mamani-Benito, Oscar
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2022
• Institución: Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas
• Repositorio: UPC-Institucional
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorioacademico.upc.edu.pe:10757/668891
• Enlace del recurso: http://hdl.handle.net/10757/668891
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: COVID-19; Knowledge; Occupational Health; Peru; Validation Study; https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#3.00.00

Introduction: COVID-19 continues to be a global health problem, as it is a virus that continues to evolve and vaccination continues to present obstacles. It is necessary to evaluate the knowledge about COVID-19 of the working population, since these allow supporting decision-making in favor of prevention. Objective:Validate a scale that measures knowledge about COVID-19 that the working population of Peru has. Material and Methods: A scale of 10 questions was made, submitted to expert judgment, evaluated in a pilot, and a survey of 663 workers was carried out. Results: Aiken’s V was greater than 0.7 in all items. A total of 9 items were obtained. Item 3 was found to be the most difficult (ID = 63%). Cronbach’s alpha was 0.701 (0.65-0.74). Conclusions: An instrument was validated, which can effectively measure workers’ knowledge about COVID-19.