Wüthrich-Grossenbacher, Ursula; Mutsinze, Abigail; Wolf, Ursula; Maponga, Charles Chiedza; Midzi, Nicholas; Mutsaka-Makuvaza, Masceline Jenipher; Merten, Sonja (2023). A validation of the religious and spiritual struggles scale among young people living with HIV in Zimbabwe: Mokken scale analysis and exploratory factor analysis. Frontiers in psychology, 14, p. 1051455. Frontiers Research Foundation 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1051455
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INTRODUCTION
Religious/spiritual convictions and practices can influence health- and treatment-seeking behavior, but only few measures of religiousness or spirituality have been validated and used outside of the US. The Religious and Spiritual Struggles scale (RSS) measures internal and external conflict with religion and spirituality and has been validated mainly in different high-income contexts. The aim of this study was the validation of the RSS in the Zimbabwean context and among young people living with human immunodeficiency virus (YPLHIV) aged 14-24.
METHODS
Data collection with an Open Data Kit (ODK) questionnaire with 804 respondents took place in 2021. The validation was performed by confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), using statistical equation modeling (SEM), and Mokken scale analysis (MSA). After the low confirmability of the original scale sub-dimensions exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was applied.
RESULTS
The EFA resulted in four new sub-domains that were different from the original six domains in the RSS but culturally more relevant. The new sub-domains are significantly related to health.
DISCUSSION
The findings support the validity and relevance of the RSS and the new sub-domains in this context. As our study was limited to YPLHIV, further validation of the RSS among different population groups and contexts in the sub-Saharan region is encouraged.
Item Type: |
Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
04 Faculty of Medicine > Medical Education > Institute of Complementary and Integrative Medicine (IKIM) |
UniBE Contributor: |
Wolf, Ursula |
Subjects: |
600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health |
ISSN: |
1664-1078 |
Publisher: |
Frontiers Research Foundation |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Pubmed Import |
Date Deposited: |
08 May 2023 14:26 |
Last Modified: |
21 May 2023 02:25 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1051455 |
PubMed ID: |
37143595 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
HIV Zimbabwe adolescents living with HIV religion religious and spiritual struggles scale spiritual struggles validation |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/182358 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/182358 |
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