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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2022

The North Italian Longitudinal Study Assessing the Mental Health Effects of SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic Health Care Workers-Part II: Structural Validity of Scales Assessing Mental Health.

Emanuele Maria Giusti, Giovanni Veronesi, Camilla Callegari, Gianluca Castelnuovo, Licia Iacoviello, Marco Mario Ferrario

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Emanuele Maria GiustiPsychology Research Laboratory, Istituto Auxologico Italiano IRCCS, 20149 Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-5767-8785
Giovanni VeronesiEPIMED Research Center, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Insubria, 21100 Varese, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-4119-6615
Camilla CallegariDivision of Psychiatry, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Insubria, 21100 Varese, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-0624-9988
Gianluca CastelnuovoDepartment of Psychology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, 20123 Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-2633-9822
Licia IacovielloEPIMED Research Center, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Insubria, 21100 Varese, Italy.
Marco Mario FerrarioEPIMED Research Center, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Insubria, 21100 Varese, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-2741-7124
University of Insubria · ITUniversità Cattolica del Sacro Cuore · IT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

It is unclear if the factor structure of the questionnaires that were employed by studies addressing the impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of Healthcare Workers (HCW) did not change due to the pandemic. The aim of this study is to assess the factor structure and longitudinal measurement invariance of the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) and the factor structure of the General Health Questionnare-12 (GHQ-12), PTSD Checklist for DSM-5-Short Form (PCL-5-SF), Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale-10 (CD-RISC-10) and Post-Traumatic Growth Inventory-Short Form (PTGI-SF). Out of n = 805 HCWs from a University hospital who responded to a pre-COVID-19 survey, n = 431 were re-assessed after the COVID-19 outbreak. A Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) on the MBI showed adequate fit and good internal consistency only after removal of items 2, 6, 12 and 16. The assumptions of configural and metric longitudinal invariance were met, whereas scalar longitudinal invariance did not hold. CFAs and exploratory bifactor analyses performed using data from the second wave confirmed that the GHQ-12, the PCL-5-SF, the PTGI-SF and the CD-RISC-10 were unidimensional. In conclusion, we found support for a refined version of the MBI. The comparison of mean MBI values in HCWs before and after the pandemic should be interpreted with caution.

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Burnout, ProfessionalCOVID-19Health PersonnelHumansLongitudinal StudiesMental HealthPandemicsPsychometricsReproducibility of ResultsSARS-CoV-2Surveys and QuestionnairesConnor-Davidson Resilience ScaleCOVID-19factor structureGeneral Health Questionnairehealth care workerslongitudinal studyMaslach Burnout Inventorymental healthPost-Traumatic Growth InventoryPTSD Checklist for DSM-5

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