A5033677984- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Stress and Burnout Research
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Health and Lifestyle Studies
- Mental Health Research Topics
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Cardiac Health and Mental Health
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Health, psychology, and well-being
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Tryptophan and brain disorders
- Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology
- Workplace Health and Well-being
- Educational Outcomes and Influences
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Occupational Health and Safety in Workplaces
- Aging and Gerontology Research
- Health and Wellbeing Research
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
- Aging, Health, and Disability
Universidad Nacional de Asunción
2015-2025
Aim: To explore the presence of symptoms associated with mental health problems and risk factors in workers.
Conspiracy theories about COVID-19 began to emerge immediately after the first news disease and threaten prolong negative impact of pandemic by limiting people's willingness receiving a life-saving vaccine. In this context, study aimed explore variation conspiracy beliefs regarding vaccine against it in 5779 people living 13 Latin American countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay Venezuela) according...
La enfermedad por COVID-19 no solo ha provocado un colapso del sistema sanitario y la muerte de miles personas, sino que está repercutiendo en salud las personas están brindando atención a los infectados. En este marco, el objetivo esta investigación fue determinar prevalencias depresión, ansiedad, insomnio, distrés fatiga compasión, así como factores relacionados presencia sintomatología asociada estos trastornos profesionales equipos salud. Para esto, se encuestó formato online 126...
The present study aimed to evaluate the cross-cultural measurement invariance of Pandemic Grief Scale (PGS) in ten Latin American countries. A total 2,321 people who had lost a family member or other loved one due COVID-19 participated, with mean age 34.22 years old (SD = 11.99). In addition PGS, single item suicidal ideation was applied. unidimensional model PGS adequate fit most countries and good reliability estimates. There evidence by country gender. Also, one-point increase associated...
Introduction: In recent years, satisfaction with life has aroused the interest of gerontological research, thus being one most used concepts to measure subjective well-being, in addition an indicator successful ageing. Materials and methods: The psychometric properties Diener’s Satisfaction Life Scale were assessed Peruvian elderly individuals. instrument was applied 236 from city Trujillo (78.4 % female 21.6 male), average age 72.8 years old, their de = 6.90 (Standard Differentiation, by...
This study aimed to characterize the network structure of pandemic grief symptoms and suicidal ideation in 2174 people from eight Latin American countries. Pandemic were measured using Grief Scale a single item, respectively. Network analysis provides an in-depth characterization symptom-symptom interactions within mental disorders. The results indicated that, “desire die,” “apathy” “absence sense life” are most central symptom network; therefore, these could be focal elements for preventive...
Aims Over the past 2 years, vaccine conspiracy beliefs construct has been used in a number of different studies. These publications have assessed determinants and outcomes using, some cases, pooled data from countries, compared results across these contexts. However, studies often do not consider measurement invariance as necessary requirement for comparative analyses. Therefore, aim this study was to develop evaluate cross-cultural MI COVID-19 Vaccine Conspiracy Beliefs Scale (COVID-VCBS)...
The invariance of the Preventive COVID-19 Infection Behaviors Scale (PCIBS) was evaluated in 12 Latin American countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay). A total 5183 people from aforementioned participated, selected using snowball sampling method. Measurement assessed by multigroup confirmatory factor analysis (MG-CFA) Multi-Group Factor Analysis Alignment (CFA-MIAL). In addition, item characteristics were...
Abstract Background There is an urgent need to assess changes in well-being on a multinational scale during the COVID-19 pandemic, thus culturally valid scales must be available. Methods With this mind, study examined invariance of WHO index (WHO-5) among sample 5183 people from 12 Latin Americans countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay). Results The results present indicate that WHO-5 strictly invariant...
The present study explored the predictive capacity of fear COVID-19 on intention to be vaccinated against and influence in this relationship conspiracy beliefs as a possible mediating psychological variable, 13 Latin American countries. A total 5779 people recruited through non-probabilistic convenience sampling participated. To collect information, we used Fear Scale, Vaccine Scale-COVID-19 single item vaccinate. full priori Structural Equation Model was used; whereas, cross-country...
Abstract Background Depression and anxiety are two of the most prevalent disabling mental disorders worldwide, both in general population outpatient clinical settings. Objective This study aimed to analyze psychometric properties Patient Health Questionnaire-4 (PHQ-4) based on network analysis metrics. Methods A total 911 Paraguayans (23.71% women 76.29% men; mean age 31.25 years, SD = 10.63), selected by non-probabilistic convenience sampling, participated study. Network was used evaluate...
The Patient Health Questionnaire-4 (PHQ-4) is a widely used instrument to measure symptoms of depression and anxiety in general, but not much known about its cross-cultural utility Latin America. present study evaluated the measurement invariance PHQ-4 adult samples (N = 5441) from 12 American countries (Paraguay, El Salvador, Chile, Ecuador, Colombia, Uruguay, Peru, Mexico, Cuba, Guatemala, Argentina, Bolivia). two-factor structure presented superior fit one-factor structure. This provides...
The present study aimed to apply a network analysis model provide an exploratory empirical conceptualization of dynamic networks posttraumatic growth (PTG) symptoms in 7,434 people who experienced the death loved one from COVID-19 16 Latin American countries. Post-Traumatic Growth Inventory: Short Form Eight Items was used. A non-regularized with partial correlation coefficients estimated through ggmModSelect algorithm. architecture analyzed for each country its local properties and global...
<p>El objetivo fue construir un modelo de regresión múltiple para investigar la relación entre ansiedad social, sensibilidad a ansiedad, rasgo y miedo evaluación negativa, comparar hombres con mujeres. La investigación cuantitativa, no experimental, correlacional transversal. Se evaluó 689 adolescentes 14 19 años (<em>M</em>=16.45; <em>DE</em>=1.11), través escala Ansiedad Social Adolescentes (SAS-A), subescala Ansiedad-Rasgo del Inventario Rasgo-Estado (STAI),...
Objetivo: Determinar la relación entre depresión y ansiedad en personas con obesidad. Método: Se realizó una investigación cuantitativa, no experimental, correlacional transversal. Participantes: 98 media de 32.43 años (DE=10.69) e Índice Masa Corporal igual o superior a 30. Instrumento: aplicó adaptación Conde Useros del Inventario Depresión Beck (BDI-II) el Ansiedad Rasgo-Estado (STAI) Spielberg Díaz-Guerrero (1975). Resultados: Existieron diferencias ansiedad-estado quienes recibían...
The Social Anomie Brief Scale (SAS10) is a self-report measure of social anomie against new standards implemented during the current COVID-19 pandemic. main objective this study was to evaluate invariance cross-cultural measurement SAS10 in sample 12 Latin American countries. Additionally, difficulty and discrimination characteristics items were evaluated using IRT compared between participating A total 4,911 people from countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador,...
La presencia de instrumentos invariantes es útil para la evaluación las emociones en diferentes culturas. El presente estudio tuvo como objetivo desarrollar y evaluar invariancia medición escala miedo a vacunación contra COVID-19 (EMV-COVID) 13 países latinoamericanos. muestra estuvo conformada por 5775 participantes seleccionados un muestreo no probabilístico intencional, residentes Latinoamérica. Se realizaron análisis factorial confirmatorio, multi-group factor analysis alignment...