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Translation and content validity of a brief scale of mindfulness for Peruvian adolescents. / Traducción y validez de contenido de una escala breve de mindfulness para adolescentes peruanos.
Caycho-Rodríguez, Tomás; Ventura-León, José; Martinez-Munive, Renzo; Barboza-Palomino, Miguel.
Affiliation
  • Caycho-Rodríguez T; Carrera de Psicología, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Privada del Norte, Lima, Perú. Electronic address: tomas.caycho@upn.pe.
  • Ventura-León J; Carrera de Psicología, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Privada del Norte, Lima, Perú.
  • Martinez-Munive R; Carrera de Psicología, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Privada del Norte, Lima, Perú.
  • Barboza-Palomino M; Carrera de Psicología, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Privada del Norte, Lima, Perú.
Enferm Clin (Engl Ed) ; 29(5): 308-312, 2019.
Article in En, Es | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30477933
OBJECTIVE: To translate into Spanish and analyze the evidence of validity based on the content of the items in the brief version of the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale of 5 items (MAAS-5). METHOD: An instrumental study that involved the translation to Spanish of the items of the short version of the MAAS-5 scale, using the back-translation procedure. We analyzed the evidence of validity based on the test content, with the participation of a total of 14 expert judges. The degree of clarity, coherence and relevance of the items was quantified using the Aiken V coefficient and their 95% confidence intervals using an ad hoc template developed in the MS Excel program. RESULTS: The items of the MAAS-5 show favourable evaluations of their clarity, coherence and relevance, where all the values of V were statistically significant and greater than 0.70. On the other hand, the lower limit of 95% confidence intervals of all the items satisfies the criterion at population level (Li˃0.59). CONCLUSION: The empirical evidence of validity based on the test content of the MAAS-5 reports that all are sufficiently relevant, coherent and clear to adequately represent the construct mindfulness, both at sample and population level. This suggests that the MAAS-5 can be a brief and useful measure to assess mindfulness. On the other hand we suggest carrying out further studies that analyze other sources of evidence of validity of the MAAS-5.
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Full text: 1 Collection: 01-internacional Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Translations / Mindfulness Limits: Adolescent / Female / Humans / Male Country/Region as subject: America do sul / Peru Language: En / Es Journal: Enferm Clin (Engl Ed) Year: 2019 Document type: Article Country of publication: Spain

Full text: 1 Collection: 01-internacional Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Translations / Mindfulness Limits: Adolescent / Female / Humans / Male Country/Region as subject: America do sul / Peru Language: En / Es Journal: Enferm Clin (Engl Ed) Year: 2019 Document type: Article Country of publication: Spain