Texas revised inventory of grief: adaptation to Spanish, reliability and validity

To adapt into Spanish the Texas Revised Inventory of Grief (TRIG) of Faschinbaguer et al (1977, 1981) and to examine its reliability and validity. Two stages: a) cross-culture adaptation of a questionnaire, and b) cross-sectional study of reliability and validity. Primary care teams in Vizcaya, nort...

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Published in:Atención primaria 2005-04, Vol.35 (7), p.353-358
Main Authors: García García, J A, Landa Petralanda, V, Trigueros Manzano, M C, Gaminde Inda, I
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Subjects:
Aged
Cultural Characteristics
Female
Grief
Humans
Language
Male
Middle Aged
Reproducibility of Results
Surveys and Questionnaires
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Summary:To adapt into Spanish the Texas Revised Inventory of Grief (TRIG) of Faschinbaguer et al (1977, 1981) and to examine its reliability and validity. Two stages: a) cross-culture adaptation of a questionnaire, and b) cross-sectional study of reliability and validity. Primary care teams in Vizcaya, north of Spain. 118 people who had been widowed between 3 months and 3 years before the study. Cross-culture adaptation: the TRIG was translated from American English, then back-translated and finally compared with the version in American Spanish by Grabowski & Frantz (1993). Reliability: the Cronbach's alpha coefficients (internal consistency) of the 2 TRIG scales were 0.75 and 0.86. Factorial validity: all items except one threw saturation >0.40 on the 2 factors extracted from the varimax rotation. Validity by hypothesis: the TRIG scales showed differences (P
ISSN:0212-6567