Validation of the instrument to identify the different emotional affectations caused by the covid-19 pandemic in healthcare workers

Abstract

Introduction: The COVID 19 Pandemic is a new disease of the 21st century that affects all people and especially those who belong to the vulnerable group in health, including those who are the first line of exposure "health workers", the same ones who do not they were emotionally prepared to face the global pandemic. Objective: To validate the research instrument to identify the different emotional affectations caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in health workers, to establish the importance of emotions and explain the symptomatology of emotional affectations during the pandemic. Materials and methods: A descriptive, cross-sectional investigation is carried out. A pilot test was carried out to establish the validity, relevance and coherence to determine the degree of reliability of the designed instrument; which was validated by expert judgment. 16 randomly selected health workers were surveyed. Results: The instrument obtained a reliability score of 98.08. Conclusion: The instrument has been approved as very reliable in terms of validity, relevance and coherence