Design and Cross-Cultural Invariance of the COVID-19 Vaccine Conspiracy Beliefs Scale (COVID-VCBS) in 13 Latin American Countries

Frontiers in Public Health

Bismarck Pinto Tapia¹  Miguel Gallegos²  Pablo Martino²  Mauricio Cervigni³  Walter L. Arias Gallegos⁴  Diego Alejandro Palacios⁵  Rodrigo Moreta-Herrera⁷  Olimpia Petzold⁸  Antonio Samaniego-Pinho⁹  Marlon Elías Lobos-Rivera^1,10  Andrés Buschiazzo Figares^1,11  Diana Ximena Puerta-Cortés^1,12  Ibraín Enrique Corrales-Reyes^1,13  Raymundo Calderón^1,14  Roberto Polanco-Carrasco^1,16  Claudio Rojas-Jara^1,17  Michael White^1,18  José Ventura-León^1,19  Carlos Carbajal-León^1,19  Tomás Caycho-Rodríguez^1,19  Pablo D. Valencia^2,20  Mario Reyes-Bossio^2,21  Lindsey W. Vilca^2,23 

[1] 0Carrera de Psicología, Universidad Católica Boliviana San Pablo, La Paz, Bolivia;0Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Rosario, Argentina;1Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Salud y del Comportamiento, Universidad Adventista del Plata, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Rosario, Argentina;1Departamento de Psicología, Universidad Católica San Pablo, Arequipa, Peru;2Centro de Desarrollo Humano, Universidad Mariano Gálvez, Guatemala, Guatemala;2Lone Star College-Conroe Center, Conroe, TX, United States;3Escuela de Psicología, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Ambato, Ecuador;3Psychosomatic and Psycho-Oncological Research Unit, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium;4Carrera de Psicología, Facultad de Filosofía, Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Asunción, Paraguay;5Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Escuela de Psicología, Universidad Tecnológica de El Salvador, San Salvador, El Salvador;6Centro de Estudios Adlerianos, Instituto Alfred Adler Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay;7Programa de Psicología, Universidad de Ibagué, Ibagué, Colombia;8Servicio de Cirugía Maxilofacial, Hospital General Universitario Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Granma, Bayamo, Cuba;9Carrera de Psicología, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad del Valle de Mexico, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico;Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Buenos Aires, Argentina;Cuadernos de Neuropsicología, Rancagua, Chile;Departamento de Psicología, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Católica del Maule, Talca, Chile;Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y Educación, Universidad Peruana Unión, Lima, Peru;Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Privada del Norte, Lima, Peru;Facultad de Estudios Superiores Iztacala, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, Tlanepantla de Baz, Mexico;Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, Lima, Peru;Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicología, Pontificia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil;South American Center for Education and Research in Public Health, Universidad Norbert Wiener, Lima, Peru;

关键词: conspiracy beliefs;    COVID-19;    invariance;    Latin America;    vaccines;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpubh.2022.908720

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

AimsOver the past 2 years, the vaccine conspiracy beliefs construct has been used in a number of different studies. These publications have assessed the determinants and outcomes of vaccine conspiracy beliefs using, in some cases, pooled data from different countries, and compared the results across these contexts. However, studies often do not consider measurement invariance as a necessary requirement for comparative analyses. Therefore, the aim of this study was to develop and evaluate the cross-cultural MI of the COVID-19 Vaccine Conspiracy Beliefs Scale (COVID-VCBS) in 12 Latin American countries.MethodsConfirmatory factor analysis, item response theory analysis and alignment method were applied to test measurement invariance in a large number of groups.ResultsThe COVID-VCBS showed robust psychometric properties and measurement invariance for both factor loadings and crosstabs. Also, a higher level of acceptance of conspiracy beliefs about vaccines is necessary to respond to higher response categories. Similarly, greater acceptance of conspiracy beliefs about COVID-19 vaccines was related to a lower intention to be vaccinated.ConclusionThe results allow for improved understanding of conspiracy beliefs about COVID-19 vaccines in the countries assessed; furthermore, they provide researchers and practitioners with an invariant measure that they can use in cross-cultural studies in Latin America. However, further studies are needed to test invariance in other countries, with the goal of developing a truly international measure of conspiracy beliefs about COVID-19 vaccines.

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