Validation and Pilot Study
A prelimanary phase was made to evaluate the validity and reliability of the questionnaire prior to its use. Primarily, two Turkısh specialists in the subject area of epidemiology and research in Turkısh universities were asked to evaluate the grade to which questions in the questionnaires are relevant regarding COVID-19. Also the survey questions were modified and edited accordingly.
The survey was pre-tested on 15 participants excluded from the study sample. The patients were requested to fill the questionnaire twice one week apart. Information were used to evaluate internal consistency reliability using cronbach’s alpha. The cronbach’s alpha value of the pilot study was 0.90 and the intra-class correlation coefficient was 0.83. That is, results showed sufficient internal consistency reliability.