IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jijerp/v18y2021i21p11311-d666562.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Validation of the Korean Version of Impact of Event Scale—Revised (IES-R) in Korean Nurses during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Author

Listed:
  • Young Suk Park

    (Department of Nursing, Korea National Open University, Seoul 03087, Korea)

  • Kwang-Hi Park

    (School of Nursing, Gacheon University, Incheon 21936, Korea)

  • Juna Lee

    (Center for Human-Caring Nurse Leaders for the Future by Brain Korea 21 (BK21) Four Project, College of Nursing, Seoul National University, Seoul 03080, Korea)

Abstract

Nurses working amid the COVID-19 pandemic are at increased risk of developing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This study was conducted to verify the reliability and validity of the Korean version of Impact of Event Scale—Revised (IES-R), one of the most used tools for assessing trauma. Secondary data of 249 nurses who performed face-to-face nursing tasks during the COVID-19 pandemic, collected through an online survey, were analyzed by conducting a factor analysis of the K-IES-R and testing the internal consistency and concurrent validity with the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), Generalized Anxiety Disorder Screener (GAD-7), and Dimensions of Anger Reactions-5 (DAR-5). The result of an exploratory factor analysis of the K-IES-R supported a three-factor structure of intrusion, avoidance, and sleep disturbance, with CMIN/DF = 2.98, RMSEA = 0.09, SRMR = 0.03, CFI = 0.93, and TLI = 0.90. The Cronbach’s alpha of each subscale was 0.88–0.94. The total K-IES-R score and each factor’s value showed a significant correlation (moderate or higher) with the PSS, GAD-7, and DAR-5. The K-IES-R was verified as a useful tool for assessing post-traumatic stress symptoms in nurses who directly perform nursing tasks in crises such as COVID-19. This study suggests the tool be used for early assessment of post-traumatic stress symptoms in nurses and providing appropriate interventions.

Suggested Citation

  • Young Suk Park & Kwang-Hi Park & Juna Lee, 2021. "Validation of the Korean Version of Impact of Event Scale—Revised (IES-R) in Korean Nurses during the COVID-19 Pandemic," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(21), pages 1-12, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:18:y:2021:i:21:p:11311-:d:666562
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/21/11311/pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/21/11311/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:18:y:2021:i:21:p:11311-:d:666562. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.