Speaking in Public Coping Scale (ECOFAP): content and response process validity evidence.
Anna Carolina Ferreira Marinho, Adriane Mesquita de Medeiros, Eduardo de Paula Lima and 1 others
PMID 38808778WHAT IT FOUND
ECOFAP items were accepted as describing ways people manage public speaking, and wording was clarified with 30 adults.
It is not ready for clinical use because it has not been checked against other measures or shown stable over time.
Key findings
01Ten expert judges reviewed the first 46-item scale and judged some items inadequate because they did not represent coping strategies.
02The second ECOFAP version had 60 items, and the pilot version shown in the article has 48 items.
03Thirty adults helped clarify wording; researchers rewrote one item and added items based on their responses.
STILL TO COME
How it was doneWhat they foundWhat it means for SLPs
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What it does not show
Only content and wording-check evidence are reported. The paper does not report comparison with another measure, underlying structure, stability over time, or a clinical cutoff. The scale is not the final version and still needs internal structure analysis. The wording check used 30 people aged 18 to 40 from one Brazilian university, so it may not represent other ages, professions, or countries.
Declared interests
Financial support was provided by FAPEMIG under grant 5.24/223.13706.
The easy way to misread this
Do not treat ECOFAP as a finished clinical scale or assume it can guide public-speaking therapy. It has only content and wording-check evidence so far, and its final version, stability over time, and comparison with other measures are still missing.