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 Volume 6, Issue 1 (January 2019), Pages: 37-42

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 Original Research Paper

 Title: Validation of e-psychological instrument for flood victims version-II

 Author(s): A. Nazilah 1, *, Raja Zirwatul Aida Raja Ibrahim 1, Mazidah Dagang 1, Nor Aizal Akmal Rohaizad 1, Che Wan Ida Rahimah Che Wan Ibrahim 2, A. Norillah 3

 Affiliation(s):

 1Psychology and Counseling Department, School of Social and Economic Development, University Malaysia Terengganu, Kuala Nerus, Terengganu, Malaysia
 2Centre for Fundamental and Liberal Education, University Malaysia Terengganu, Kuala Nerus, Terengganu, Malaysia
 3Department of Fundamental and Interdisciplinary Studies, Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences, International Islamic University, Gombak, Selangor, Malaysia

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3045-3399

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 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2019.01.005

 Abstract:

This study aims to validate a newly developed of e-Psychological Instrument for Flood Victims Version II (e-PIFV-II) by using expert judgment method. Measuring the psychopathology symptoms among flood victims is an important step for intervention and treatment. However, there is a gap of a valid, reliable and efficient instrument to measure flood victims' mental health in Malaysia. The e-PIFV-II is a digital self-report inventory that has 56 items with 4 dimension scales namely stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. Results showed that there was strong content coefficient validity for each subscale of the instrument and the coefficient value for trauma subscale in the e-PIFV-II was increased. The coefficient value of stress was 0.8, anxiety was 0.9, depression was 1.0, trauma was 0.9 and overall was 0.9. This study supports the theoretical framework and provides practical implication in the field of clinical psychology and flood management. 

 © 2018 The Authors. Published by IASE.

 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: E-Psychological instrument, Mental health management, Flood victims, Psychopathology, Validity

 Article History: Received 5 August 2018, Received in revised form 10 November 2018, Accepted 12 November 2018

 Acknowledgement:

We thank Research Secretariat of University Malaysia Terengganu [grant number 50001] for funding this research. The researchers also would like to appreciate supports given by Research Management and Innovation Centre, School of Social and Economic Development of University Malaysia Terengganu, Social Welfare Department Malaysia and all participants of the study.

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 Conflict of interest:  The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

 Citation:

 Nazilah A, Ibrahim RZAR, and Dagang M et al. (2019). Validation of e-psychological instrument for flood victims version-II. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 6(1): 37-42

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