TY - JOUR
T1 - South American Validation of a Survey to Assess Eco-Anxiety in Adults (ECO-ANS-LATAM)
AU - Mejia, Christian R.
AU - Alvarez-Risco, Aldo
AU - Vizcardo, David A.
AU - Sedano-Ochoa, Luzmila
AU - Medina Rivera, Maria Fe
AU - Shimabukuro Jaramillo, Claudia
AU - Cedillo-Balcázar, Jamil
AU - Mamani-Benito, Oscar
AU - Carranza Esteban, Renzo Felipe
AU - Armada, Jose
AU - Ubillus, Milward
AU - Del-Aguila-Arcentales, Shyla
AU - Davies, Neal M.
AU - Yáñez, Jaime A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 by the authors.
PY - 2024/4/20
Y1 - 2024/4/20
N2 - Background: climate change is a reality, and more and more people are becoming aware of this global problem, which has generated anxiety in some populations. To validate a short survey to assess eco-anxiety in adults in South America. Methods: It is an instrumental study, and the validation was based on a previous survey, which had six questions and was generated by 217 respondents in the USA in 2021. These questions were subjected to a validation process with expert judgment, pilot and application, and then statistics were obtained. It was validated with 1907 people in six countries in South America, where the mean, standard deviation, skewness and kurtosis were adequate. Results: The initial confirmatory factorial model obtained unsatisfactory goodness-of-fit indices, so the indices were modified through a re-specification, where two items were eliminated, after which adequate values were obtained (χ2 = 22.34, df = 2, p = 0.00; RMR = 0.020; GFI = 0.990; CFI = 0.990; TLI = 0.990; and RMSEA = 0.070). Finally, the overall Cronbach’s α was calculated to be 0.88 (95% CI = 0.86–0.89). Conclusions: The test was validated in a large South American population and found that only four questions can efficiently measure anxiety about the effects of climate change. The instrument can be used with other tests to screen different age groups, ethnicities and realities.
AB - Background: climate change is a reality, and more and more people are becoming aware of this global problem, which has generated anxiety in some populations. To validate a short survey to assess eco-anxiety in adults in South America. Methods: It is an instrumental study, and the validation was based on a previous survey, which had six questions and was generated by 217 respondents in the USA in 2021. These questions were subjected to a validation process with expert judgment, pilot and application, and then statistics were obtained. It was validated with 1907 people in six countries in South America, where the mean, standard deviation, skewness and kurtosis were adequate. Results: The initial confirmatory factorial model obtained unsatisfactory goodness-of-fit indices, so the indices were modified through a re-specification, where two items were eliminated, after which adequate values were obtained (χ2 = 22.34, df = 2, p = 0.00; RMR = 0.020; GFI = 0.990; CFI = 0.990; TLI = 0.990; and RMSEA = 0.070). Finally, the overall Cronbach’s α was calculated to be 0.88 (95% CI = 0.86–0.89). Conclusions: The test was validated in a large South American population and found that only four questions can efficiently measure anxiety about the effects of climate change. The instrument can be used with other tests to screen different age groups, ethnicities and realities.
KW - South America
KW - anxiety
KW - climate change
KW - instrumental study
KW - validation
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U2 - 10.3390/jcm13082398
DO - 10.3390/jcm13082398
M3 - Artículo
C2 - 38673671
AN - SCOPUS:85191336460
SN - 2077-0383
VL - 13
JO - Journal of Clinical Medicine
JF - Journal of Clinical Medicine
IS - 8
M1 - 2398
ER -
