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Assessment of anxiety in Mexican persons living with HIV using a culturally-adapted version of the GAD-7 test

Published:2022-01-19 Issue:13 Volume:27 Page:2875-2886
ISSN:1359-1053
Container-title:Journal of Health Psychology
language:en
Short-container-title:J Health Psychol

Author:

Gutiérrez-Velilla Ester¹²,Barrientos-Casarrubias Vania¹,Cruz-Maycott Rosa¹,Perrusquia-Ortiz Lydia E.¹,Alvarado-de la Barrera Claudia¹,Ávila-Ríos Santiago¹,Caballero-Suárez Nancy Patricia¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Centro de Investigación en Enfermedades Infecciosas (CIENI) del Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias “Ismael Cosío Villegas” (INER), Mexico

2. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico

Abstract

Our aim was to assess the severity of anxiety in PLWHA in Mexico City and obtain the psychometric properties of the culturally-adapted Spanish version of GAD-7. Thirteen percent of participants presented moderate to severe symptoms. Reliability (α = 0.82) and construct validity (single-factor explained 48.9% of variance) were evaluated in 411 participants. Confirmatory Factor Analysis was performed in a second sample of 527 participants. Model fit adequately (CFI = 0.991; CMIN/DF = 1.924; RMSEA = 0.042; and SRMR = 0.026). The adapted version of GAD-7 was adequate for the assessment of anxiety in Mexican PLWHA.

Funder

Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología

Mexican Government

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Applied Psychology

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/13591053211072687

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