Open AccessCOmpliance with pandemic COmmands Scale (COCOS): The relationship between compliance with COVID-19 measures and sociodemographic and attitudinal variables
Author(s) -
Fabia MoralesVives,
Jorge-Manuel Dueñas,
Pere J. Ferrando,
Andreu Vigil-Colet,
María Dolores Varea
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
plos one
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.99
H-Index - 332
ISSN - 1932-6203
DOI - 10.1371/journal.pone.0262698
Subject(s) - acquiescence , scale (ratio) , psychology , pandemic , compliance (psychology) , exploratory factor analysis , confirmatory factor analysis , population , set (abstract data type) , public health , clinical psychology , psychometrics , applied psychology , medicine , covid-19 , environmental health , social psychology , statistics , structural equation modeling , disease , nursing , computer science , geography , mathematics , law , pathology , political science , programming language , cartography , politics , infectious disease (medical specialty)
Several studies in different countries have reported that part of the population does not fully comply with the measures recommended to prevent COVID-19, and therefore poses a risk to public health. For this reason, several measures have been developed to assess the level of compliance, although many of them have methodological limitations or do not include a comprehensive set of items. The main goal of the current study was to develop a new instrument with suitable psychometric properties, which includes a more complete set of items and controls the impact of acquiescence bias. The participants were 1410 individuals (59.2% women) from Spain, who answered the new questionnaire and several items on sociodemographic and attitudinal issues. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were carried out, and the results suggested that only one content factor was underlying the data. This solution was replicated in a different subsample, which shows the stability of the solution. Furthermore, the relationships between the scores of the new questionnaire and the sociodemographic and attitudinal variables are similar to those obtained in previous studies, which can be regarded as evidence of the validity of the new questionnaire.