Spanish Adaptation and Validation of the World Health Organization's Violence Against Women Instrument

IF 3.2 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Psicothema Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI:10.7334/psicothema2022.197

Marta Badenes-Sastre, Miguel Lorente Acosta, Francisco Herrero Machancoses, Francisca Expósito Jiménez

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Abstract

Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) developed an instrument to detect violence against women that has been widely used in several countries. Despite this instrument's importance in identifying intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW), it has not been adapted for the Spanish population. The aim of this study was to adapt and validate the WHO violence against women instrument in a sample in Spain, facilitating the detection of IPVAW in this context and comparisons between countries.

Method: After the instrument was translated and adapted into Spanish, 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: Suitable internal 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 instrument revealed highly prevalent IPVAW in our sample (79.7%).

Conclusions: The use of the Spanish version of the WHO violence against women instrument in Spain seems justified.

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西班牙修改和批准世界卫生组织的《对妇女的暴力行为文书》

背景:世界卫生组织(卫生组织)开发了一种检测暴力侵害妇女行为的工具，已在若干国家广泛使用。尽管这一文书在查明亲密伴侣对妇女的暴力行为(IPVAW)方面具有重要意义，但它尚未针对西班牙人口进行调整。本研究的目的是在西班牙的一个样本中调整和验证世卫组织对妇女的暴力行为工具，促进在这种情况下对IPVAW的检测和国家之间的比较。方法:将仪器翻译成西班牙语后，对西班牙普通人群中的532名妇女进行了测试。最初的工具包括28个项目。由于内部一致性不高，我们删除了3条，最终版本有25条。结果:通过验证性析因分析，体格量表(α = 0.92)、心理量表(α = 0.91)、性量表(α = 0.86)、控制行为量表(α = 0.91)和总量表(α = 0.95)的内部一致性较好。仪器显示IPVAW在我们的样本中非常普遍(79.7%)。结论:在西班牙使用世卫组织暴力侵害妇女行为文书的西班牙文版似乎是合理的。

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Psicothema PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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6.50

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24 weeks

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