ABSTRACT
The COVID(19) pandemic created a sense of urgency for the early identification of its symptoms. Besides preventing the advancement of the disease, it allows for a more effective treatment for the patient. In this context, this work describes the Hey Team collaborative application: a strategy used by some companies in Brazil, and aims to provide support with information, contact with doctors, psychological support, among other features to its employees during the pandemic. Through the application, employees report their health situation daily so that they can be monitored individually. For this strategy to work, technological, legal, ethical, and cultural challenges were overcome. Comparing Hey Team with similar approaches through common indicators, we concluded that the use of a collaborative application, based on mutual trust, managed to achieve its goals, disseminating information and helping employees to get through this difficult time. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
ABSTRACT
Depression represents one of the most frequent and disabling mood disorders in the elderly population. To measure it, one of the most used scales is the Geriatric Depression Questionnaire, developed by Yesavage, in its abbreviated version (GDS-VE). Despite its ample acknowledgment and frequent use, an analysis of these characteristics has not yet been carried out on the Argentine population. Currently, because of the COVID-19 pandemic and the isolation context, the American Psychological Association recommends adapting face-to-face to virtual practices. Given this need, the present work aims to analyze the internal structure of the GDS-VE, for pencilpaper and Internet modalities examining the metric equivalence between both of them. A confirmatory factor analysis was carried out and the internal consistency was estimated for both modalities. Factor invariance between both forms of administration was also examined. A total of 696 older adults participated and responded to the questionnaire, using two modes of administration (50% pencil-paper and 50% Internet). As a result, an adequate adjustment of the model to the empirical data was verified for both versions (pencil-paper and Internet), as well as an adequate metric invariance between them. These findings provide evidence of validity and reliability of the GDS-VE instrument on the Argentine population.