Psychometric Characteristics and Sociodemographic Adaptation of the Corrigan Agitated Behavior Scale in Patients With Severe Mental Disorders

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Garrote Cámara, María Elena
Santolalla Arnedo, Iván
Ruiz de Viñaspre Hernández, Regina
Gea Caballero, Vicente
Sufrate Sorzano, Teresa
Del Pozo Herce, Pablo
Garrido García, Rebeca
Juárez Vela, Raúl
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Garrote Cámara, María Elena;
Santolalla Arnedo, Iván;
Ruiz de Viñaspre Hernández, Regina;
Gea Caballero, Vicente;
Sufrate Sorzano, Teresa;
Del Pozo Herce, Pablo;
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Juárez Vela, Raúl.
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Psychometric Characteristics and Sociodemographic Adaptation of the Corrigan Agitated Behavior Scale in Patients With Severe Mental Disorders.
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021, vol. 12.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.779277.
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Background: Severe mental disorder (SMD) is understood in a first approximation as a disorder of thought, emotion, or behavior of long duration, which entails a variable degree of disability and social dysfunction. One of the most widely used assessment scales for agitated behavior, in its English version, is the Corrigan Agitated Behavior Scale (ABS); several studies have demonstrated solid psychometric properties of the English version, with adequate internal consistency.
Objective: The objective of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the ABS Corrigan scale, in a sample of patients with severe mental disorders. The psychometric analyses of the Spanish version of the ABS Corrigan included tests of the reliability and validity of its internal structure.
Results: The structure of the factorial loads of the analyzed elements is consistent with the hypothesized three-dimensional construction referred to in the original ABS. The results suggest that the reliability and validity of the three dimensions are acceptable (First 0.8, Second 0.8, and Third 0.7). The internal consistency of the Spanish version of the complete ABS and of each of the three domains that compose it is high, with values very close to those found in the original version, with approximate figures of 0.9.
Conclusion: In our study, the three domains aim to explain 64.1% of the total variance of the scale, which exceeds the 50% found in the original version.
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