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29-10-2024 | Research

Measuring depressive symptoms among Latinos in the US: a psychometric evaluation of the CES-D Boston form

Authors: Sumeyra Sahbaz, Pablo Montero-Zamora, Aigerim Alpysbekova, Christopher P. Salas-Wright, Augusto Pérez-Gómez, Juliana Mejía-Trujillo, Saskia R. Vos, Carolina Scaramutti, Eric C. Brown, Mildred M. Maldonado-Molina, Melissa M. Bates, Maria Fernanda Garcia, Maria Duque, María Piñeros-Leaño, Seth J. Schwartz

Published in: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

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Abstract

Purpose

We present a psychometric evaluation of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Boston Form (CES-D-B) for use with different Latino subgroups as there is inconsistency regarding its performance across subgroups of Latinos, a large and rapidly growing cultural group in the United States.

Methods

We evaluated the reliability and structural validity of the scores generated by the CES-D-B using four distinct Latino samples residing in US: Mexicans, Venezuelans, Cubans, and “other Latinos” (total N = 1033). To further explore structural validity of CES-D-B scores, we conducted measurement invariance analyses across different countries of origin, gender groups, educational levels, and languages of assessment (English, Spanish).

Results

For all four samples, CES-D-B scores were highly reliable as indicated with the coefficients ranging from 0.82 to 0.88, and the factor structure provided an adequate fit to the data with the fit indices CFI/TLI ranging from 0.96 to 0.99, RMSEA estimates between 0.02 and 0.07, and SRMR estimates between 0.02 and 0.04. While measurement invariance analyses for different educational levels indicated scalar invariance across all samples, the same level of measurement equivalency was achieved only for Mexicans and Venezuelans with varying gender and languages of assessment.

Conclusions

The findings indicated that CES-D-B scores are internally consistent, possess a strong four-factor structure, and have somewhat equivalent psychometric properties across diverse Latino groups. Findings from this study highlight the importance of considering gender and languages of assessment when assessing depressive symptoms of various Latino subgroups.
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Metadata
Title
Measuring depressive symptoms among Latinos in the US: a psychometric evaluation of the CES-D Boston form
Authors
Sumeyra Sahbaz
Pablo Montero-Zamora
Aigerim Alpysbekova
Christopher P. Salas-Wright
Augusto Pérez-Gómez
Juliana Mejía-Trujillo
Saskia R. Vos
Carolina Scaramutti
Eric C. Brown
Mildred M. Maldonado-Molina
Melissa M. Bates
Maria Fernanda Garcia
Maria Duque
María Piñeros-Leaño
Seth J. Schwartz
Publication date
29-10-2024
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
Print ISSN: 0933-7954
Electronic ISSN: 1433-9285
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-024-02782-3