Psychometric properties of the vulnerability to abuse screening scale for screening abuse of older adults
| dc.creator | Raquel Batista Dantas | |
| dc.creator | Graziella Lage Oliveira | |
| dc.creator | Andréa Maria Silveira | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-12-11T23:19:10Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-09-08T23:16:17Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-12-11T23:19:10Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
| dc.format.mimetype | ||
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1590/s1518-8787.2017051006839 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 15188787 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1843/61909 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.publisher | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Revista de Saúde Pública | |
| dc.rights | Acesso Aberto | |
| dc.subject | Psychometrics | |
| dc.subject | Domestic Violence | |
| dc.subject | Reproducibility of Results | |
| dc.subject | Validation Studies | |
| dc.subject.other | Elder Abuse | |
| dc.subject.other | Domestic Violence | |
| dc.subject.other | Psychometrics | |
| dc.subject.other | Reproducibility of Results | |
| dc.subject.other | Validation Studies | |
| dc.title | Psychometric properties of the vulnerability to abuse screening scale for screening abuse of older adults | |
| dc.type | Artigo de periódico | |
| local.citation.epage | 11 | |
| local.citation.spage | 1 | |
| local.citation.volume | 51 | |
| local.description.resumo | OBJECTIVE: Adapt and evaluate the psychometric properties of the Vulnerability to Abuse Screening Scale to identify risk of domestic violence against older adults in Brazil.METHODS: The instrument was adapted and validated in a sample of 151 older adults from a geriatric reference center in the municipality of Belo Horizonte, State of Minas Gerais, in 2014. We collected sociodemographic, clinical, and abuse-related information, and verified reliability by reproducibility in a sample of 55 older people, who underwent re-testing of the instrument seven days after the first application. Descriptive and comparative analyses were performed for all variables, with a significance level of 5%. The construct validity was analyzed by the principal components method with a tetrachoric correlation matrix, the reliability of the scale by the weighted Kappa (Kp) statistic, and the internal consistency by the Kuder-Richardson estimator formula 20 (KR-20).RESULTS: The average age of the participants was 72.1 years (DP = 6.96; 95%CI 70.94–73.17), with a maximum of 92 years, and they were predominantly female (76.2%; 95%CI 69.82–83.03). When analyzing the relationship between the scores of the Vulnerability to Abuse Screening Scale, categorized by presence (score > 3) or absence (score < 3) of vulnerability to abuse, with clinical and health conditions, we found statistically significant differences for self-perception of health (p = 0.002), depressive symptoms (p = 0.000), and presence of rheumatism (p = 0.003). There were no statistically significant differences between sexes. The Vulnerability to Abuse Screening Scale acceptably evaluated validity in the transcultural adaptation process, demonstrating dimensionality coherent with the original proposal ( four factors). In the internal consistency analysis, the instrument presented good results (KR-20 = 0.69) and the reliability via reproducibility was considered excellent for the global scale (Kp = 0.92). CONCLUSIONS: The Vulnerability to Abuse Screening Scale proved to be a valid instrument with good psychometric capacity for screening domestic abuse against older adults in Brazil. | |
| local.publisher.country | Brasil | |
| local.publisher.department | MED - DEPARTAMENTO DE MEDICINA PREVENTIVA SOCIAL | |
| local.publisher.initials | UFMG | |
| local.url.externa | https://doi.org/10.1590/S1518-8787.2017051006839 |