Examinando por Autor "Carbajal‑León, Carlos"

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“Cross‑cultural measurement invariance of the purpose in life test ‑ Short form (PIL‑SF) in seven Latin American countries“
(Springer, 2022-07) Caycho‑Rodríguez, Tomás; Vilca, Lindsey W.; Cervigni, Mauricio; Gallegos, Miguel; Martino, Pablo; Calandra, Manuel; Rey Anacona, Cesar Armando; López‑Calle, Claudio; Moreta‑Herrera, Rodrigo; Chacón‑Andrade, Edgardo René; Lobos‑Rivera, Marlon Elías; Del Carpio, Perla; Quintero, Yazmín; Robles, Erika; Panza Lombardo, Macerlo; Gamarra Recalde, Olivia; Buschiazzo Figares, Andrés; White, Michael; Burgos Videla, Carmen; Carbajal‑León, Carlos
“The aim was to test the cross-cultural measurement invariance of the PIL-SF in a sample of people from seven Latin American countries. Additionally, the characteristics of the PIL-SF items were evaluated and to assess the relationship between purpose in life, as measured by the PIL-SF, and fear of COVID-19. A total of 4306 people from seven Latin American countries participated in the study. The results indicated that the PIL-SF is invariant in the seven participating countries and, therefore, there is evidence that the items refect the purpose of life in the same way in all countries. This allows comparisons of purpose in life between countries that are free of bias, refecting the true diferences in how countries respond to items. From IRT, the discrimination parameters are adequate and indicate that the items cover a wide range of the purpose in life construct. The difculty parameters are adequate and increase monotonically. This indicates that people would need a higher level of purpose in life to respond to the higher response categories. Thus, the PIL-SF items would be useful in determining people with a relatively high degree of purpose in life. Identifying people with diferent levels of purpose in life would allow them to be part of intervention programs, either to support those with low levels or to maintain and reinforce their purpose in life. The evidence of cross-country measurement invariance of the PIL-SF provides a measure to be used in cross-cultural studies about the meaning of life.“
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Impact of COVID‑19 on quality of life in Peruvian older adults: construct validity, reliability and invariance of the COV19—Impact on Quality of Life (COV19‑QoL) measurement
(Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2023) Caycho‑Rodríguez, Tomás; Carbajal‑León, Carlos; Vilca, Lindsey W.; Reyes‑Bossio, Mario; Gallegos, Miguel; Carranza Esteban, Renzo; Noe‑Grijalva, Martin; Arias Gallegos, Walter L.; Delgado‑Campusano, Mariel; Muñoz‑del‑Carpio‑Toia, Águeda
“The aim of the present study was to translate into Spanish and evaluate the psychometric evidence of the Impact on Quality of Life (COV19-QoL) applied to a sample of Peruvian older adults (N=298; 58.1% women, 41.9% men, mean age 65.34 years [SD=11.33]). The study used techniques from the Classical Test Theory (CTT) and Item Response Theory (IRT). The fndings confrmed the single factor structure of the COV19-QoL, high internal consistency reliability, measurement invariance by gender, and all items demonstrated adequate discrimination and difculty indices. In this sense, the items allow adequate discrimination between low, medium and high levels of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on quality of life. In addition, a greater perceived impact of the pandemic on quality of life is necessary to answer the higher response options of the COV19-QoL. In conclusion, the COV19-QoL is a valid measurement scale of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the quality of life of Peruvian older adults.“
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Is the meaning of subjective well‑being similar in Latin American countries? A cross‑cultural measurement invariance study of the WHO‑5 well‑being index during the COVID‑19 pandemic
(SCIE, 2023-04-06) Caycho‑Rodríguez, Tomás; Vilca, Lindsey W.; Valencia, Pablo D.; Carbajal‑León, Carlos; Reyes‑Bossio, Mario; White, Michel; Rojas‑Jara, Claudio; Polanco‑Carrasco, Roberto; Gallegos, Miguel; Cervigni, Mauricio; Martino, Pablo; Palacios, Diego Alejandro; Moreta‑Herrera, Rodrigo; Samaniego‑Pinho, Antonio; Lobos‑Rivera, Marlon Elías; Buschiazzo Figares, Andrés; Puerta‑Cortés, Diana Ximena; Corrales‑Reyes, Ibraín Enrique; Calderón, Raymundo; Ferrari, Ilka Franco; Flores‑Mendoza, Carmen
“Background There is an urgent need to assess changes in well-being on a multinational scale during the COVID-19 pandemic, thus culturally valid scales must be available. Methods With this in mind, this study examined the invariance of the WHO well-being index (WHO-5) among a sam‑ ple of 5183 people from 12 Latin Americans countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay). Results The results of the present study indicate that the WHO-5 is strictly invariant across samples from diferent Latin American countries. Furthermore, the results of the IRT analysis indicate that all items of the WHO-5 were highly discriminative and that the difculty required to respond to each of the fve items is ascending. Additionally, the results indicated the presence of moderate and small size diferences in subjective well-being among most countries. Conclusion The WHO-5 is useful for assessing subjective well-being in 12 Latin American countries during the COVID-19 pandemic, since the diferences between scores can be attributed to diferences in well-being and not in other characteristics of the scale.“
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Is the meaning of subjective well‑being similar in Latin American countries? A cross‑cultural measurement invariance study of the WHO‑5 well‑being index during the COVID‑19 pandemic
(SCIE, 2023-04-06) Caycho‑Rodríguez, Tomás; Vilca, Lindsey W.; Valencia, Pablo D.; Carbajal‑León, Carlos; Reyes‑Bossio, Mario; White, Michel; Rojas‑Jara, Claudio; Polanco‑Carrasco, Roberto; Gallegos, Miguel; Cervigni, Mauricio; Martino, Pablo; Alejandro Palacios, Diego; Moreta‑Herrera, Rodrigo; Samaniego‑Pinho, Antonio; Lobos‑Rivera, Marlon Elías; Buschiazzo Figares, Andrés; Puerta‑Cortés, Diana Ximena; Corrales‑Reyes, Ibraín Enrique; Calderón, Raymundo; Franco Ferrari, Ilka; Flores‑Mendoza, Carmen
“Background There is an urgent need to assess changes in well-being on a multinational scale during the COVID-19 pandemic, thus culturally valid scales must be available. Methods With this in mind, this study examined the invariance of the WHO well-being index (WHO-5) among a sam‑ ple of 5183 people from 12 Latin Americans countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay). Results The results of the present study indicate that the WHO-5 is strictly invariant across samples from diferent Latin American countries. Furthermore, the results of the IRT analysis indicate that all items of the WHO-5 were highly discriminative and that the difculty required to respond to each of the fve items is ascending. Additionally, the results indicated the presence of moderate and small size diferences in subjective well-being among most countries. Conclusion The WHO-5 is useful for assessing subjective well-being in 12 Latin American countries during the COVID-19 pandemic, since the diferences between scores can be attributed to diferences in well-being and not in other characteristics of the scale.“
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Pandemic grief in El Salvador: factors that predict dysfunctional grief due to a COVID‑19 death among Salvadoran adults
(Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2023-03-29) Lobos‑Rivera, Marlon Elías; Flores‑Monterrosa, Angélica Nohemy; Tejada‑Rodríguez, Jennifer Carolina; Chacón‑Andrade, Edgardo René; Caycho‑Rodríguez, Tomás; Lee, Sherman A.; Valencia, Pablo D.; Carbajal‑León, Carlos; Vilca, Lindsey W.; Reyes‑Bossio, Mario; Gallegos, Miguel
Thousands of people have died of COVID-19 in El Salvador. However, little is known about the mental health of those who are mourning the loss of a loved one to COVID-19. Therefore, the objective of this study was to examine the dysfunctional grief associated with COVID-19 death among Salvadoran adults. A sample of 435 Salvadorans (M = 29 years; SD = 8.75) who lost a family member or loved one to COVID-19 completed a digital survey using the Google Forms platform, during April 2 and 28, 2022. The results revealed that 35.1% reported clinically elevated symptoms of dysfunctional grief and among those mourners, and 25.1% also exhibited clinical levels of coronavirus anxiety. A binary logistic regression revealed that predictor variables such as COVID-19 anxiety (p = .003), depression (p = .021), and COVID-19 obsession (p = .032) were significant (χ2 = 84.31; Nagelkerke R2 = .242) and predict a 24.2% chance of dysfunctional bereavement.
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Prevalence and Predictors of Intention to be Vaccinated Against COVID‑19 in Thirteen Latin American and Caribbean Countries
(Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2022-03-21) Caycho‑Rodríguez, Tomás; Valencia, Pablo D.; Vilca, Lindsey W.; Carbajal‑León, Carlos; Vivanco‑Vidal, Andrea; Saroli‑Araníbar, Daniela
The presence of a significant number of people who do not intend to be vaccinated could negatively impact efforts to control the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, this study sought to determine the prevalence of intention to be vaccinated against COVID-19 and associated sociodemographic and psychosocial factors in thirteen countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). A total of 5510 people from 13 LAC countries participated. Frequencies, percentages, bivariate analyses using chi-square tests, and Poisson regression analysis with robust variance were used. The countries with the highest prevalence of intention to be vaccinated were Bra-zil (96.94%), Cuba (89.59%), Chile (84.59%), and Mexico (78.33%). On the other hand, the countries with the lowest prevalence were El Salvador (54.01%), Paraguay (55.87%), and Uruguay (56.40%). Prevalence is also reported according to some sociodemographic and health variables. It was found that country, male sex, hours exposed to information about COVID-19, university education, living in an urban area, belief in the animal origin of the virus, perceived likelihood of contracting COVID-19, perceived severity of COVID-19, and concern about infecting others significantly predicted intention to be vaccinated in the 13 LAC countries. While most countries had a high prevalence of intention to be vaccinated, there are still subgroups that have levels of intention that may be insufficient to predict the pres-ence of community immunity. In this sense, knowing the estimates of vaccination intention rates, as well as the associated sociodemographic and psychological fac-tors, can be used to plan actions and interventions that will inform about the safety and benefits of vaccines, as well as strengthen trust in health authorities.
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“The Monkeypox Fear Scale: development and initial validation in a Peruvian sample “
(BioMed Central Ltd, 2022) Caycho‑Rodríguez, Tomás; Vilca, Lindsey W.; Carbajal‑León, Carlos; Gallegos, Miguel; Reyes‑Bossio, Mario; Noe‑Grijalva, Martin; Delgado‑Campusano, Mariel; Muñoz‑del‑Carpio‑Toia, Águeda
“Background: Fear is one of the basic emotions generated during periods of infectious diseases. Therefore, the aim of this study was to develop and validate a scale that assesses monkeypox fear, the Monkeypox Fear Scale (MFS). Methods: A total of 451 Peruvians participated (61% women and 39% men), with a mean age of 28.31 years (SD=9.72). based on procedures from classical test theory (CTT) and item response theory (IRT). Classical Test Theory (CTT) and Item Response Theory (IRT) procedures were used. Results: The results showed that MFS has a two-factor structure related to emotional and physiological fear fac‑ tors (χ2=41.87; df=12; p<.001; CFI=.99; TLI=.99; RMSEA=.074 [IC90% .051–.100]). In addition, the physiological and emotional factors showed good reliability. Measurement invariance analysis showed that the factor structure of the MFS is strictly invariant between male and female groups. Finally, the discrimination and difculty parameters of the items show adequacy. In addition, the scale seems to be more accurate in measuring high levels of fear of monkeypox. Conclusion: The MFS has adequate psychometric evidence to assess fear of monkeypox in the Peruvian population. These fndings may guide future studies related to the consequences of monkeypox on mental health.“
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“The Monkeypox Fear Scale: development and initial validation in a Peruvian sample “
(BioMed Central Ltd, 2022) Caycho‑Rodríguez, Tomás; Vilca, Lindsey W.; Carbajal‑León, Carlos; Gallegos, Miguel; Reyes‑Bossio, Mario; Noe‑Grijalva, Martin; Delgado‑Campusano, Mariel; Muñoz‑del‑Carpio‑Toia, Águeda
“Background: Fear is one of the basic emotions generated during periods of infectious diseases. Therefore, the aim of this study was to develop and validate a scale that assesses monkeypox fear, the Monkeypox Fear Scale (MFS). Methods: A total of 451 Peruvians participated (61% women and 39% men), with a mean age of 28.31 years (SD=9.72). based on procedures from classical test theory (CTT) and item response theory (IRT). Classical Test Theory (CTT) and Item Response Theory (IRT) procedures were used. Results: The results showed that MFS has a two-factor structure related to emotional and physiological fear fac‑ tors (χ2=41.87; df=12; p<.001; CFI=.99; TLI=.99; RMSEA=.074 [IC90% .051–.100]). In addition, the physiological and emotional factors showed good reliability. Measurement invariance analysis showed that the factor structure of the MFS is strictly invariant between male and female groups. Finally, the discrimination and difculty parameters of the items show adequacy. In addition, the scale seems to be more accurate in measuring high levels of fear of monkeypox. Conclusion: The MFS has adequate psychometric evidence to assess fear of monkeypox in the Peruvian population. These fndings may guide future studies related to the consequences of monkeypox on mental health.“