Spanish Adaptation and Validation of the World Health Organizations Violence Against Women Instrument / Adaptación y Validación Española del Instrumento de Violencia Contra las Mujeresde la Organización Mundial de la Salud
Psicothema (Oviedo)
; 35(2): 202-210, 2023. tab, ilus
Article
in English
| IBECS
| ID: ibc-219700
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ES1.1
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ABSTRACT
Background:
The World Health Organization (WHO) developed an instrument to detect violence against women thathas been widely used in several countries. Despite this instruments importance in identifying intimate partner violenceagainst women (IPVAW), it has not been adapted for the Spanish population. The aim of this study was to adaptand validate the WHO violence against women instrument in a sample in Spain, facilitating the detection of IPVAWin this context and comparisons between countries.Method:
After the instrument was translated and adapted intoSpanish, 532 women from the general population in Spain completed it. The initial instrument consisted of 28 items.We deleted three items due to low internal consistency, resulting in 25 items in the final version.Results:
Suitableinternal consistency was obtained through Confirmatory Factorial Analysis for physical (α = .92), psychological (α =.91), sexual (α = .86), and control behaviors subscales (α = .91) as well as for the total scale (α = .95). The instrumentrevealed highly prevalent IPVAW in our sample (79.7%).Conclusions:
The use of the Spanish version of the WHOviolence against women instrument in Spain seems justified.(AU)RESUMEN
Antecedentes La Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) desarrolló un instrumento para detectar la violenciade género (VG) que ha sido ampliamente utilizado en varios países. A pesar de la importancia del instrumento paraidentificar la VG, éste no ha sido adaptado en población española. El objetivo de este estudio fue adaptar y validarel instrumento de VG de la OMS en España, facilitando la detección de la VG en este contexto y la comparaciónentre países. Método:
532 mujeres de la población general en España completaron el instrumento tras su traducción yadaptación al español. El instrumento inicial constaba de 28 ítems. Se eliminaron tres ítems debido a su baja consistenciainterna, resultando un total de 25 ítems en la versión final.Resultados:
Se obtuvo una adecuada consistencia internamediante el análisis factorial confirmatorio para las subescalas de violencia física (α = .92), psicológica (α = .91), sexual(α = .86) y en conductas de control (α = .91), así como en la escala total (α = .95). El instrumento reveló alta prevalenciade VG (79,7%).Conclusiones:
El uso de la versión española del instrumento de VG contra las mujeres de la OMS,justifican su uso en España.(AU)
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Collection:
National databases
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Spain
Database:
IBECS
Main subject:
Psychometrics
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Spouse Abuse
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Violence Against Women
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Gender-Based Violence
Limits:
Female
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Humans
Country/Region as subject:
Europa
Language:
English
Journal:
Psicothema (Oviedo)
Year:
2023
Document type:
Article
Institution/Affiliation country:
Universidad Jaume I de Castellón/España
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Universidad de Granada/España