The Brief Coping Orientation to Problems Experienced (Brief COPE): Improving Construct Validity and Reliability in a Cohort of Health Professionals.

Journal of Allied Health Pub Date : 2023-01-01

Frances M Wise, Darren W Harris, David Harrower, John H Olver

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Objectives: While the Brief Coping Orientation to Problems Experienced (Brief COPE) is widely used in clinical and nonclinical populations, the reliability of its subscales is uncertain. This study aimed to establish and improve the construct validity and reliability of the Brief COPE in a cohort of Australian rehabilitation health professionals.

Methods: 343 rehabilitation health professionals completed the Brief COPE and a demographic questionnaire in an anonymous online survey. Principal components analysis was performed to identify the number of factors in the Brief COPE. Factors were interpreted against the theoretical constructs intended to underlie the instrument. Items loading on separate factors then underwent reliability analysis to determine internal consistency of subscales.

Results: Principal components analysis identified two dimensions (task-focused coping and distraction-focused coping) in a modified version of the Brief COPE, with appropriate construct validity and a high level of reliability (Cronbach's alpha: 0.72 to 0.82). The two dimensions were distinct from each other and accounted for over 50% of variance between items.

Conclusion: The modified Brief COPE scale is consistent with existing theories of coping, has demonstrated acceptable reliability and construct validity in a cohort of health professionals, and is appropriate for use in future studies of similar populations.

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对经历过的问题的简短应对倾向:提高卫生专业人员队列的构念效度和信度。

摘要目的:简明问题应对倾向(Brief COPE)在临床和非临床人群中广泛使用，但其分量表的可靠性尚不确定。本研究旨在建立和提高澳大利亚康复健康专业人员简要COPE的结构效度和信度。方法:对343名康复卫生专业人员进行匿名在线调查，填写简要COPE和人口统计问卷。进行主成分分析以确定简要COPE中的因素数量。根据旨在作为该工具基础的理论结构来解释各种因素。然后对各因子加载项进行信度分析，确定各分量表的内部一致性。结果:主成分分析在修改后的简明COPE中发现了两个维度(任务聚焦应对和分心聚焦应对)，具有适当的结构效度和高水平的信度(Cronbach's alpha: 0.72 ~ 0.82)。这两个维度彼此不同，占项目间方差的50%以上。结论:修改后的简明COPE量表与现有的应对理论一致，在卫生专业人员队列中表现出可接受的信度和结构效度，适合在未来类似人群的研究中使用。

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