Development and validation of a scale for measuring cultural beliefs about psychotherapy patients in southern Chile
PURPOSE: Negative cultural beliefs about psychotherapy patients represent one of the barriers in the psychological help-seeking and treatment adherence. In Chile today, there is little research about specific beliefs towards this group, and therefore measuring them represents a challenge. The aim of...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7026340/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32067122 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41155-020-0140-5 |
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author | Salinas-Oñate, Natalia Baeza-Rivera, María José Ortiz, Manuel Betancourt, Héctor |
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description | PURPOSE: Negative cultural beliefs about psychotherapy patients represent one of the barriers in the psychological help-seeking and treatment adherence. In Chile today, there is little research about specific beliefs towards this group, and therefore measuring them represents a challenge. The aim of the present study was to develop and validate an instrument to measure cultural beliefs about psychotherapy patients. METHODS: A mixed method design conducted in four stages was implemented. First, 32 semi-structured interviews were carried out to identify beliefs about psychotherapy patients in southern Chile. Then, a scale of beliefs about psychotherapy patients (SBPP) was developed and piloted in an adult sample (n = 109). Subsequently, the factorial structure of the new scale was explored in patients of primary health centres in La Araucanía Region of Chile (n = 201). Finally, the validity of the construct was assessed in adults who were not undergoing psychotherapy (n = 361). RESULTS: The results showed the existence of negative cultural beliefs about psychotherapy patients which were included in the construction of the SBPP. The scale had a bifactorial structure (α(transitory situations) = 0.81 and α(stable characteristics) = 0.79), consisting of 15 items with a Likert-type response format, and showed good indicators of validity and reliability on the samples in which were applied. CONCLUSIONS: The present study shows the importance of using mixed methods for the examination of socially shared beliefs by the cultural group under study, in order to construct instruments that are psychometrically robust and culturally pertinent. |
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spelling | pubmed-70263402020-03-02 Development and validation of a scale for measuring cultural beliefs about psychotherapy patients in southern Chile Salinas-Oñate, Natalia Baeza-Rivera, María José Ortiz, Manuel Betancourt, Héctor Psicol Reflex Crit Research PURPOSE: Negative cultural beliefs about psychotherapy patients represent one of the barriers in the psychological help-seeking and treatment adherence. In Chile today, there is little research about specific beliefs towards this group, and therefore measuring them represents a challenge. The aim of the present study was to develop and validate an instrument to measure cultural beliefs about psychotherapy patients. METHODS: A mixed method design conducted in four stages was implemented. First, 32 semi-structured interviews were carried out to identify beliefs about psychotherapy patients in southern Chile. Then, a scale of beliefs about psychotherapy patients (SBPP) was developed and piloted in an adult sample (n = 109). Subsequently, the factorial structure of the new scale was explored in patients of primary health centres in La Araucanía Region of Chile (n = 201). Finally, the validity of the construct was assessed in adults who were not undergoing psychotherapy (n = 361). RESULTS: The results showed the existence of negative cultural beliefs about psychotherapy patients which were included in the construction of the SBPP. The scale had a bifactorial structure (α(transitory situations) = 0.81 and α(stable characteristics) = 0.79), consisting of 15 items with a Likert-type response format, and showed good indicators of validity and reliability on the samples in which were applied. CONCLUSIONS: The present study shows the importance of using mixed methods for the examination of socially shared beliefs by the cultural group under study, in order to construct instruments that are psychometrically robust and culturally pertinent. Springer International Publishing 2020-02-17 /pmc/articles/PMC7026340/ /pubmed/32067122 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41155-020-0140-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Research Salinas-Oñate, Natalia Baeza-Rivera, María José Ortiz, Manuel Betancourt, Héctor Development and validation of a scale for measuring cultural beliefs about psychotherapy patients in southern Chile |
title | Development and validation of a scale for measuring cultural beliefs about psychotherapy patients in southern Chile |
title_full | Development and validation of a scale for measuring cultural beliefs about psychotherapy patients in southern Chile |
title_fullStr | Development and validation of a scale for measuring cultural beliefs about psychotherapy patients in southern Chile |
title_full_unstemmed | Development and validation of a scale for measuring cultural beliefs about psychotherapy patients in southern Chile |
title_short | Development and validation of a scale for measuring cultural beliefs about psychotherapy patients in southern Chile |
title_sort | development and validation of a scale for measuring cultural beliefs about psychotherapy patients in southern chile |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7026340/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32067122 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41155-020-0140-5 |
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