No. 73 (2022): Enero - junio
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Validity and reliability of a questionnaire on lifestyle changes in students from six universities in the American continent

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  • Jhony A. De La Cruz-Vargas,
  • Edgardo Chacón-Andrade,
  • Miguel A. Pérez,
  • Jenny Raquel Torres-Malca,
  • Víctor Vera-Ponce,
  • María Fernanda Durón-Ramos,
  • Concepción Elena Amador-Ahumada,
  • Luz Dary Ripoll,
  • Kenneth J. Perez
Jhony A. De La Cruz-Vargas
Universidad Ricardo Palma, Perú
Edgardo Chacón-Andrade
Universidad Tecnológica de El Salvador, El salvador
Miguel A. Pérez
Fresno State, Estado Unidos
Jenny Raquel Torres-Malca
Universidad Tecnológica del Perú, Perú
Víctor Vera-Ponce
Universidad Tecnológica del Perú, Perú
María Fernanda Durón-Ramos
Instituto Tecnológico de Sonora, Universidad de Sonora, México
Concepción Elena Amador-Ahumada
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia
Luz Dary Ripoll
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina
Kenneth J. Perez
Ronald E. Mcnair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program, Estados Unidos

Published 2022-01-09

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De La Cruz-Vargas, J. A., Chacón-Andrade, E., Pérez, M. A., Raquel Torres-Malca, J., Vera-Ponce, V., Durón-Ramos, M. F., Amador-Ahumada, C. E., Ripoll, L. D., & Perez, K. J. (2022). Validity and reliability of a questionnaire on lifestyle changes in students from six universities in the American continent. Entorno, 73, 32-44. https://revistas.utec.edu.sv/index.php/entorno/article/view/951

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to validate a scale to measure the lifestyle changes of university students during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study applied a transversal methodology; it gathered information from 1.781 students from Mexico, El Salvador, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Peru and the United States by using the virtual platform Qualtrics. A statistical analysis was carried out with the Kaiser Meyer Olkin (KMO) and Bartlett´s test of sphericity. Aditionally, the exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was also used, and the probable resulting factors were extracted by means of the analysis of the main components, the Varimax rotation. The results of this study show that the Scale of Changes in Lifestyle (Escala de Cambios en el Estilo de Vida, ECEV, given its Spanish acronym) during the quarantine is a reliable and acceptable instrument.

URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11298/1269

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5377/entorno.v1i73.14414

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