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Design and Cross-Cultural Invariance of the COVID-19 Vaccine Conspiracy Beliefs Scale (COVID-VCBS) in 13 Latin American Countries
AIMS: Over the past 2 years, the vaccine conspiracy beliefs construct has been used in a number of different studies. These publications have assessed the determinants and outcomes of vaccine conspiracy beliefs using, in some cases, pooled data from different countries, and compared the results acro...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9237359/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35774567 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.908720 |
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author | Caycho-Rodríguez, Tomás Valencia, Pablo D. Ventura-León, José Vilca, Lindsey W. Carbajal-León, Carlos Reyes-Bossio, Mario White, Michael 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 Figares, Andrés Buschiazzo Puerta-Cortés, Diana Ximena Corrales-Reyes, Ibraín Enrique Calderón, Raymundo Tapia, Bismarck Pinto Arias Gallegos, Walter L. Petzold, Olimpia |
author_facet | Caycho-Rodríguez, Tomás Valencia, Pablo D. Ventura-León, José Vilca, Lindsey W. Carbajal-León, Carlos Reyes-Bossio, Mario White, Michael 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 Figares, Andrés Buschiazzo Puerta-Cortés, Diana Ximena Corrales-Reyes, Ibraín Enrique Calderón, Raymundo Tapia, Bismarck Pinto Arias Gallegos, Walter L. Petzold, Olimpia |
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description | AIMS: Over the past 2 years, the vaccine conspiracy beliefs construct has been used in a number of different studies. These publications have assessed the determinants and outcomes of vaccine conspiracy beliefs using, in some cases, pooled data from different countries, and compared the results across these contexts. However, studies often do not consider measurement invariance as a necessary requirement for comparative analyses. Therefore, the aim of this study was to develop and evaluate the cross-cultural MI of the COVID-19 Vaccine Conspiracy Beliefs Scale (COVID-VCBS) in 12 Latin American countries. METHODS: Confirmatory factor analysis, item response theory analysis and alignment method were applied to test measurement invariance in a large number of groups. RESULTS: The COVID-VCBS showed robust psychometric properties and measurement invariance for both factor loadings and crosstabs. Also, a higher level of acceptance of conspiracy beliefs about vaccines is necessary to respond to higher response categories. Similarly, greater acceptance of conspiracy beliefs about COVID-19 vaccines was related to a lower intention to be vaccinated. CONCLUSION: The results allow for improved understanding of conspiracy beliefs about COVID-19 vaccines in the countries assessed; furthermore, they provide researchers and practitioners with an invariant measure that they can use in cross-cultural studies in Latin America. However, further studies are needed to test invariance in other countries, with the goal of developing a truly international measure of conspiracy beliefs about COVID-19 vaccines. |
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spelling | pubmed-92373592022-06-29 Design and Cross-Cultural Invariance of the COVID-19 Vaccine Conspiracy Beliefs Scale (COVID-VCBS) in 13 Latin American Countries Caycho-Rodríguez, Tomás Valencia, Pablo D. Ventura-León, José Vilca, Lindsey W. Carbajal-León, Carlos Reyes-Bossio, Mario White, Michael 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 Figares, Andrés Buschiazzo Puerta-Cortés, Diana Ximena Corrales-Reyes, Ibraín Enrique Calderón, Raymundo Tapia, Bismarck Pinto Arias Gallegos, Walter L. Petzold, Olimpia Front Public Health Public Health AIMS: Over the past 2 years, the vaccine conspiracy beliefs construct has been used in a number of different studies. These publications have assessed the determinants and outcomes of vaccine conspiracy beliefs using, in some cases, pooled data from different countries, and compared the results across these contexts. However, studies often do not consider measurement invariance as a necessary requirement for comparative analyses. Therefore, the aim of this study was to develop and evaluate the cross-cultural MI of the COVID-19 Vaccine Conspiracy Beliefs Scale (COVID-VCBS) in 12 Latin American countries. METHODS: Confirmatory factor analysis, item response theory analysis and alignment method were applied to test measurement invariance in a large number of groups. RESULTS: The COVID-VCBS showed robust psychometric properties and measurement invariance for both factor loadings and crosstabs. Also, a higher level of acceptance of conspiracy beliefs about vaccines is necessary to respond to higher response categories. Similarly, greater acceptance of conspiracy beliefs about COVID-19 vaccines was related to a lower intention to be vaccinated. CONCLUSION: The results allow for improved understanding of conspiracy beliefs about COVID-19 vaccines in the countries assessed; furthermore, they provide researchers and practitioners with an invariant measure that they can use in cross-cultural studies in Latin America. However, further studies are needed to test invariance in other countries, with the goal of developing a truly international measure of conspiracy beliefs about COVID-19 vaccines. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-06-14 /pmc/articles/PMC9237359/ /pubmed/35774567 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.908720 Text en Copyright © 2022 Caycho-Rodríguez, Valencia, Ventura-León, Vilca, Carbajal-León, Reyes-Bossio, White, Rojas-Jara, Polanco-Carrasco, Gallegos, Cervigni, Martino, Palacios, Moreta-Herrera, Samaniego-Pinho, Lobos-Rivera, Figares, Puerta-Cortés, Corrales-Reyes, Calderón, Tapia, Arias Gallegos and Petzold. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Public Health Caycho-Rodríguez, Tomás Valencia, Pablo D. Ventura-León, José Vilca, Lindsey W. Carbajal-León, Carlos Reyes-Bossio, Mario White, Michael 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 Figares, Andrés Buschiazzo Puerta-Cortés, Diana Ximena Corrales-Reyes, Ibraín Enrique Calderón, Raymundo Tapia, Bismarck Pinto Arias Gallegos, Walter L. Petzold, Olimpia Design and Cross-Cultural Invariance of the COVID-19 Vaccine Conspiracy Beliefs Scale (COVID-VCBS) in 13 Latin American Countries |
title | Design and Cross-Cultural Invariance of the COVID-19 Vaccine Conspiracy Beliefs Scale (COVID-VCBS) in 13 Latin American Countries |
title_full | Design and Cross-Cultural Invariance of the COVID-19 Vaccine Conspiracy Beliefs Scale (COVID-VCBS) in 13 Latin American Countries |
title_fullStr | Design and Cross-Cultural Invariance of the COVID-19 Vaccine Conspiracy Beliefs Scale (COVID-VCBS) in 13 Latin American Countries |
title_full_unstemmed | Design and Cross-Cultural Invariance of the COVID-19 Vaccine Conspiracy Beliefs Scale (COVID-VCBS) in 13 Latin American Countries |
title_short | Design and Cross-Cultural Invariance of the COVID-19 Vaccine Conspiracy Beliefs Scale (COVID-VCBS) in 13 Latin American Countries |
title_sort | design and cross-cultural invariance of the covid-19 vaccine conspiracy beliefs scale (covid-vcbs) in 13 latin american countries |
topic | Public Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9237359/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35774567 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.908720 |
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