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Miedema SS, Cheong YF, Naved RT, Yount KM. Development and validation of the Economic Coercion Scale-20 (ECS-20): A short-form of the ECS-36. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0287963. [PMID: 37856439 PMCID: PMC10586689 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0287963] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2022] [Accepted: 06/18/2023] [Indexed: 10/21/2023] Open
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The Economic Coercion Scale 36 (ECS-36) is a validated scale measuring women's exposure to economic coercion for low-income countries. A valid short form is needed to facilitate parsimonious measurement of economic coercion in general surveys or program evaluations. We used data from a probability sample of 930 married women 15-49 years in Matlab, Bangladesh. We selected 21 items from the ECS-36 based on theory, content coverage, and item and dimensional information. We evaluated external validity with measures of non-economic intimate partner violence and depressive symptoms. We tested measurement invariance of the short-form scale across participants and non-participants of microfinance programs. A final, 20-item scale captured husband's interference with wife's (1) acquisition of economic resources and (2) use or maintenance of economic resources. IRT results of the ECS-20 demonstrated precision over the higher range of the economic coercion trait. Tests of external validity confirmed expected correlations of the ECS-20 with measures of IPV and depressive symptoms. The ECS-20 was measurement invariant across groups of women who did and did not participate in microfinance programs. The ECS-20, a valid short-form of the ECS-36, is suitable for general surveys and monitoring potential adverse impacts of microfinance programs targeting women.
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Affiliation(s)
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- Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
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- Department of Sociology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
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Bergenfeld I, Kaslow NJ, Yount KM, Cheong YF, Johnson ER, Clark CJ. Measurement invariance of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Scale-Depression within and across six diverse intervention trials. Psychol Assess 2023; 35:805-820. [PMID: 37616094 PMCID: PMC10662958 DOI: 10.1037/pas0001262] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/25/2023]
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Depression, a major contributor to the global burden of disease, is an outcome of interest in clinical trials. Researchers and clinicians note that depression often presents differently across cultures, posing challenges in the accurate measurement of depressive symptoms across populations. A commonly used self-administered screening tool to measure depressive symptoms, the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Scale-Depression (CES-D), has been translated into dozens of languages and used in thousands of studies, yet gaps remain in our understanding of its factor structure and invariance across studies and over time in the context of interventions. In this secondary analysis, we sampled six recent trials from lower- and middle-income countries to (a) establish the factor structure of the CES-D, (b) assess measurement invariance of the CES-D across treatment versus control arms and over time, (c) examine cross-study invariance, and (d) identify items that may be driving potential noninvariance. We performed exploratory/confirmatory factor analysis to establish the factor structure of the CES-D within each trial and used multiple group confirmatory analysis to assess within-study cross-arm/cross-time and cross-study invariance. After removal of positive affect items, a unidimensional model performed equivalently over time and across arms within trials, but exhibited noninvariance across trials, supporting prior literature describing differences in factor structure of the scale across populations. While our findings suggest that the CES-D without positive affect items is a valid measure of depressive symptoms within trials in our sample, caution is warranted in interpreting the findings of meta-analyses and multisite/multicountry studies using the CES-D as an outcome measure. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).
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- Irina Bergenfeld
- Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
- Emory University, Department of Sociology, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Emory University, Department of Psychology, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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Yount KM, Cheong YF, Miedema S, Naved RT. Development and Validation of the Economic Coercion Scale 36 (ECS-36) in Rural Bangladesh. JOURNAL OF INTERPERSONAL VIOLENCE 2022; 37:NP10726-NP10757. [PMID: 33480313 DOI: 10.1177/0886260520987812] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Assessing progress toward Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5, to achieve gender equality and to empower women, requires monitoring trends in intimate partner violence (IPV). Current measures of IPV may miss women's experiences of economic coercion, or interference with the acquisition, use, and maintenance of financial resources. This sequential, mixed-methods study developed and validated a scale for economic coercion in married women in rural Bangladesh, where women's expanding economic opportunities may elevate the risks of economic coercion and other IPV. Forty items capturing lifetime and prior-year economic coercion were adapted from formative qualitative research and prior scales and administered to a probability sample of 930 married women 16-49 years. An economic coercion scale (ECS) was validated using exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) with primary data from random-split samples (N1 = 310; N2 = 620). Item response theory (IRT) methods gauged the measurement precision of items and scales over the range of the economic-coercion latent trait. Multiple-group factor analysis assessed measurement invariance of the economic-coercion construct. Two-thirds (62.26%) of women reported any lifetime economic coercion. EFA suggested a 36-item, two-factor model capturing barriers to acquire and to use or maintain economic resources. CFA, multiple group factor analysis, and multidimensional IRT methods confirmed that this model provided a reasonable fit to the data. IRT analysis showed that each dimension provided most precision over the higher range of the economic coercion trait. The Economic Coercion Scale 36 (ECS-36) should be validated elsewhere and over time. It may be added to violence-specific surveys and evaluations of violence-prevention and economic-empowerment programs that have a primary interest measuring economic coercion. Short-form versions of the ECS may be developed for multipurpose surveys and program monitoring.
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- International Center for Diarrheal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Shaun MMA, Nizum MWR, Shuvo MA, Fayeza F, Faruk MO, Alam MF, Ahmed MS, Zaman S, Mali SK, Hawlader MDH. Association between depressive symptoms and poor sleep quality among pregnant women in Northern Rural Bangladesh: a community-based cross-sectional study. BMC Psychiatry 2022; 22:201. [PMID: 35303810 PMCID: PMC8933943 DOI: 10.1186/s12888-022-03839-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2021] [Accepted: 03/08/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Adequate good quality of sleep is essential for physical fitness during pregnancy as well as being a depressive symptoms-free mind. However, there is little evidence of the relationship between depressive symptoms and poor sleep quality among pregnant women in Bangladesh. This study aimed to find the association between depressive symptoms and poor sleep quality among pregnant women in northern rural Bangladesh. METHODS A community-based cross-sectional study was carried out from May 2021 to June 2021 among 481 pregnant women tested positive in the pregnancy test of Jaldhaka and Dimla Upazila of Nilphamari district, Rangpur Division. Data were collected with a structured questionnaire including socio-demographic conditions, sleep quality, and depressive symptoms, comprising the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and the Patient Health Questionnaire- 9 (PHQ-9). RESULTS 8.94% of the women had depressive symptoms, whereas 38.88% of the participants were bad sleepers. However, women who had depressive symptoms [Adjusted odds ratio (AOR) = 2.55; 95% CI 1.33-4.9] and educational qualifications above 10 years [AOR = 0.60; 95% CI: 0.39-0.92] were associated with poor sleep quality. CONCLUSIONS A higher percentage of pregnant women had poor sleep quality, whereas depressive symptoms and academic background of the participants were significantly associated with poor sleep quality. Ensuring adequate sleep time and better quality could be helpful to prevent depressive symptoms.
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- Md Mahbubul Alam Shaun
- Department of Biochemistry and Food Analysis, Faculty of Nutrition and Food Science, Patuakhali Science and Technology University, Dumki 8602, Patuakhali, Bangladesh
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- Department of Public Health, School of Health and Life Sciences, North South University, Dhaka, 1229 Bangladesh
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- Department of Public Health, School of Health and Life Sciences, North South University, Dhaka, 1229 Bangladesh
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- Department of Biochemistry and Food Analysis, Faculty of Nutrition and Food Science, Patuakhali Science and Technology University, Dumki 8602, Patuakhali, Bangladesh
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- Department of Biochemistry and Food Analysis, Faculty of Nutrition and Food Science, Patuakhali Science and Technology University, Dumki 8602, Patuakhali, Bangladesh
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- Department of Biochemistry and Food Analysis, Faculty of Nutrition and Food Science, Patuakhali Science and Technology University, Dumki 8602, Patuakhali, Bangladesh
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- Department of Community Health and Hygiene, Faculty of Nutrition and Food Science, Patuakhali Science and Technology University, Dumki 8602, Patuakhali, Bangladesh
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- Department of Public Health, Daffodil International University (DIU), Dhaka, 1207 Bangladesh
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- Department of Biochemistry and Food Analysis, Faculty of Nutrition and Food Science, Patuakhali Science and Technology University, Dumki 8602, Patuakhali, Bangladesh
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Kanougiya S, Daruwalla N, Gram L, Gupta AD, Sivakami M, Osrin D. Economic abuse and its associations with symptoms of common mental disorders among women in a cross-sectional survey in informal settlements in Mumbai, India. BMC Public Health 2021; 21:842. [PMID: 33933060 PMCID: PMC8088652 DOI: 10.1186/s12889-021-10904-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2021] [Accepted: 04/21/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Domestic violence takes a range of interconnected forms, of which economic abuse is common, but less studied than others. We examine the prevalence of economic abuse, its determinants, and its association with symptoms of depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation. METHODS Our cross-sectional survey in informal settlement areas in Mumbai, India, asked women aged 18-49 years 15 questions about acquisition, use, and maintenance of economic resources, demographic and socioeconomic factors, and physical, sexual, and emotional violence. We administered the Patient Health Questionnaire 9 (PHQ-9) and Generalised Anxiety Disorder 7 (GAD-7) scales and asked about suicidal thinking. Determinants of economic abuse and its associations with positive screens for depression and anxiety were explored in univariable and multivariable logistic regression models. RESULTS Of 4906 ever-married women respondents, 23% reported at least one form of economic abuse by either an intimate partner or another family member. The commonest were denial of property rights (10%), not being trusted with money (8%), and coercive appropriation of belongings (7%). Economic abuse was more commonly reported by widowed, separated, or divorced women than by married women (aOR 12.4; 95% CI 6.4, 24.1), and when their partners used alcohol or drugs (aOR 1.4; 95% CI 1.2-1.7). Women had greater odds of reporting economic abuse if they had suffered emotional (aOR 6.3; 95% CI 5.0-7.9), physical (aOR 1.9; 95% CI 1.4-2.6), or sexual violence (aOR 5.4; 95% CI 3.6-8.1) in the preceding 12 months. Economic abuse was independently associated with positive screens for moderate-severe depression (aOR 2.6; 95% CI 2.0-3.4), anxiety (aOR 2.7; 95% CI 1.9-3.8), and suicidal ideation (aOR 2.2; 95% CI 1.5-3.1). The odds of anxiety and depression increased with each additional form of economic abuse. DISCUSSION To our knowledge, this is the first community-based study in India of the prevalence of economic abuse and its associations with symptoms of common mental disorders. It provides empirical support for the idea that economic abuse is at least as harmful to women's mental health as physical violence. Surveys should include questions on economic abuse and prevention and intervention strategies need to help survivors to understand its forms.
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- Suman Kanougiya
- Program on Prevention of Violence Against Women and Children, SNEHA, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400017 India
- School of Health Systems Studies (SHSS), Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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- Program on Prevention of Violence Against Women and Children, SNEHA, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400017 India
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- Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, WC1N IEH UK
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- Program on Prevention of Violence Against Women and Children, SNEHA, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400017 India
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- School of Health Systems Studies (SHSS), Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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- Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, WC1N IEH UK
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