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Colasanti EL, Castellano E, Lapuente L, Moretti LS, Medrano LA. Psychometric properties of the survey work-home interaction nijmegen in Argentinian population. Front Psychol 2022; 13:876025. [PMID: 35923743 PMCID: PMC9341323 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.876025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2022] [Accepted: 06/27/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Frictions between work and family life have increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, causing negative consequences on the mental health and quality of life of workers. Without validated instruments, it is not possible to determine the impact of Work-Family and Family-Work conflict. To date, no studies have been conducted to provide evidence of the validity and reliability of The Survey Work-Home Interaction Nijmegen (SWING; 22 items) in the population of Argentine workers. The SWING was administered to 611 Argentine workers of both sexes (73.6% female) aged between 18 and 70 years (M = 35.33; SD = 9.16) selected from a non-probabilistic accidental sampling. The confirmatory factor analysis showed satisfactory fit indices of the original four-factor model (χ2 = 647.073, gl = 203, CFI = 0.93, GFI = 0.92, NFI = 0.90, TLI = 0.92, RMSEA = 0.05, SRMR = 0.05, AIC = 557.9, BIC = 821.5). The level of reliability was acceptable (α between 0.68 and 0.86, ω = 0.79–0.89). The relationships of the subscale scores with the engagement and burnout variables were as expected according to previous studies. Having an instrument adequately adapted to the population of Argentine workers facilitates the development of studies aimed at evaluating the role of W-F or F-W interactions and their implications for health and productivity.
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Affiliation(s)
- Elena Lucía Colasanti
- Secretaría de Investigación y Transferencia Científica, Universidad Siglo 21, Córdoba, Argentina
- *Correspondence: Elena Lucía Colasanti,
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- Secretaría de Investigación y Transferencia Científica, Universidad Siglo 21, Córdoba, Argentina
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- Secretaría de Investigación y Transferencia Científica, Universidad Siglo 21, Córdoba, Argentina
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- Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic
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- Secretaría de Investigación y Transferencia Científica, Universidad Siglo 21, Córdoba, Argentina
- Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic
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Trógolo MA, Moretti LS, Medrano LA. A nationwide cross-sectional study of workers' mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: Impact of changes in working conditions, financial hardships, psychological detachment from work and work-family interface. BMC Psychol 2022; 10:73. [PMID: 35303966 PMCID: PMC8931581 DOI: 10.1186/s40359-022-00783-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2021] [Accepted: 03/11/2022] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Background The COVID-19 disease has changed people’s work and income. While recent evidence has documented the adverse impact of these changes on mental health outcomes, most research is focused on frontline healthcare workers and the reported association between income loss and mental health comes from high-income countries. In this study we examine the impact of changes in working conditions and income loss related to the COVID-19 lockdown on workers’ mental health in Argentina. We also explore the role of psychological detachment from work and work-family interaction in mental health.
Methods A total of 1049 participants aged between 18 and 65 who were working before the national lockdown in March 2020 were recruited using a national random telephone survey. Work conditions included: working at the usual workplace during the pandemic, working from home with flexible or fixed schedules, and being unemployed or unable to work due to the pandemic. Measures of financial hardship included income loss and self-reported financial problems related to the outbreak. Work-family interface included measures of work-family conflict (WFC) and family-work conflict (FWC). Mental health outcomes included burnout, life satisfaction, anxiety and depressive symptoms. Data were collected in October 2020. Results Home-based telework under fixed schedules and unemployment impact negatively on mental health. Income loss and particularly self-reported financial problems were also associated with deterioration of mental health. More than half of the participants reported financial problems, and those who became unemployed during the pandemic experienced more often financial problems. Finally, psychological detachment from work positively influenced mental health; WFC and FWC were found to negatively impact on mental health. Conclusions Countries’ policies should focus on supporting workers facing economic hardships and unemployment to ameliorate the COVID-19’ negative impact on mental health. Organisations can protect employees’ mental health by actively encouraging psychological detachment from work and by help managing work-family interface. Longitudinal studies are needed to more thoroughly assess the long-term impact of the COVID-19-related changes in work and economic turndown on mental health issues.
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- Universidad Siglo 21, Bv. de los Latinos 8555, 5000, Córdoba, Argentina.,Pontifica Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, Santiago De Los Caballeros, República Dominicana
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- Universidad Siglo 21, Bv. de los Latinos 8555, 5000, Córdoba, Argentina.,Pontifica Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, Santiago De Los Caballeros, República Dominicana
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Garcia-Batista ZE, Guerra-Peña K, Flores-Kanter PE, Moretti LS, Medrano L. Anxiety, Depression and Anger: Application
of a Bifactor Model to Identify Common Symptoms. Arch Psych Psych 2021. [DOI: 10.12740/app/136354] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2022]
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García-Batista ZE, Guerra-Peña K, Alsina-Jurnet I, Cano-Vindel A, Cantisano-Guzmán LM, Nazir-Ferreiras A, Moretti LS, Medrano LA, Garrido LE. Design and Validation of Augmented Reality Stimuli for the Treatment of Cleaning Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Front Psychol 2021; 12:618874. [PMID: 34135802 PMCID: PMC8201081 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.618874] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2020] [Accepted: 04/01/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Fear to contamination is an easy-to-provoke, intense, hard-to-control, and extraordinarily persistent fear. A worsening of preexisting psychiatric disorders was observed during the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) outbreak, and several studies suggest that those with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) may be more affected than any other group of people. In the face of worsening OCD symptoms, there is a need for mental health professionals to provide the support needed not only to treat patients who still report symptoms, but also to improve relapse prevention. In this line, it is recommended to improve alternative strategies such as online consultations and digital psychiatry. The aim of this study is to develop augmented reality (AR) stimuli that are clinically relevant for patients with cleaning OCD and assess their efficiency to obtain emotionally significant responses. Four AR stimuli were developed: a plastic bag full of garbage, a piece of bread with mold, a dirty sports shoe, and a piece of rotten meat. All stimuli were shown to a clinical group (17 patients with cleaning OCD) and a control group (11 patients without OCD). Relevant results were the design of the AR stimuli. These stimuli were validated with the statistical difference in perceived anxiety in the meat stimuli between the clinical and control groups. Nevertheless, when looking at effect sizes, all stimuli present effect sizes from small (plastic bag) to large (meat), with both shoe and bread between small and medium effect sizes. These results are a valuable support for the clinical use of these AR stimuli in the treatment of cleaning OCD.
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- Zoilo Emilio García-Batista
- Escuela de Psicología, Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic
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- Escuela de Psicología, Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic
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- Departamento de Personalidad, Evaluación y Tratamientos Psicológicos, Facultad de Psicología, Universidad de Vic-Universitat Central de Catalunya (UVIC-UCC), Barcelona, Spain
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- Departamento de Psicología Básica, Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
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- Escuela de Psicología, Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic
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- Escuela de Psicología, Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic.,Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Siglo 21, Argentina
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- Escuela de Psicología, Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic.,Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Siglo 21, Argentina
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- Escuela de Psicología, Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic
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Cano-García FJ, Muñoz-Navarro R, Sesé Abad A, Moretti LS, Medrano LA, Ruiz-Rodríguez P, González-Blanch C, Moriana JA, Cano-Vindel A. Latent structure and factor invariance of somatic symptoms in the patient health questionnaire (PHQ-15). J Affect Disord 2020; 261:21-29. [PMID: 31600584 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2019.09.077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2019] [Revised: 09/03/2019] [Accepted: 09/30/2019] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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BACKGROUND Somatic symptoms are highly prevalent in primary care although insufficiently understood. The Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-15) is a valuable screening test but it has not yet been possible to unequivocally demonstrate its latent structure and measurement invariance. METHODS A total of 1,255 patients from 28 primary care centres suffering symptoms of anxiety, depression or somatisation participated in a clinical trial. They completed the PHQ-15 at baseline and 374 retook it at three months. Exploratory structural equation modelling (ESEM) was used to compare three models: 1) a single global factor for somatisation, 2) four specific correlated factors, and 3) a bifactor model integrating the first two models. RESULTS A multi-group invariance analysis of the best-fit model was performed: the bifactor model (χ2=25.17, df=23, p = 0.34, RMSEA=0.009, CFI=1.00, TLI=0.999). Strict invariance was good for both gender (RMSEA = 0.046, CFI = 0.973, TLI = 0.963) and age (RMSEA = 0.048, CFI = 0.964, TLI = 0.962). Configural and metric invariance were confirmed for moment of assessment, but scalar invariance was not. LIMITATIONS The two main limitations were the sample (primary care patients with emotional disorders), which was not representative of the general population, and the utilisation of ESEM (vs. confirmatory factor analysis), which did not allow a second-order factor model to be tested. CONCLUSIONS PHQ-15 showed a bifactor structure, providing both a single global measure of somatisation and specific measures of pain, gastrointestinal, cardiopulmonary and fatigue factors. Its factor invariance with regard to both gender and age was confirmed.
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- Francisco Javier Cano-García
- Department of Personality, Assessment and Psychological Treatments, School of Psychology, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain.
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- Department of Basic Psychology, School of Psychology, Universidad de Valencia, Spain
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- Department of Psychology, School of Psychology, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma, Spain
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- Castilla La Nueva Primary Care Centre, Health Service of Madrid, Fuenlabrada, Madrid, Spain
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- Mental Health Centre, Marqués de Valdecilla University Hospital - IDIVAL, Santander, Cantabria, Spain
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- Department of Psychology, Universidad de Córdoba/Maimónides Institute for Research in Biomedicine of Cordoba (IMIBIC)/Reina Sofía University Hospital, Córdoba, Spain
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, School of Psychology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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Moreno E, Muñoz-Navarro R, Medrano LA, González-Blanch C, Ruiz-Rodríguez P, Limonero JT, Moretti LS, Cano-Vindel A, Moriana JA. Factorial invariance of a computerized version of the GAD-7 across various demographic groups and over time in primary care patients. J Affect Disord 2019; 252:114-121. [PMID: 30981054 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2019.04.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2018] [Revised: 03/07/2019] [Accepted: 04/07/2019] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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BACKGROUND The Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-item scale (GAD-7) is commonly used by clinicians and researchers to screen for anxiety disorders and to monitor anxiety symptoms in primary care. However, findings regarding its factor structure are mixed, with most studies reporting a best-fitting for a one-factor structure, whereas others indicate a two-factor model. To be valid for comparisons, the GAD-7 should measure the same latent construct with the same structure across groups and over time. We aimed to examine the best-fit factor structure model of the GAD-7 among primary care patients and to evaluate its measurement invariance. METHODS A total of 1255 patients completed the computerized version of GAD-7 and a subsample of 238 cases was assessed at the 3-month follow-up. A confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was performed and analyses of multiple-group invariance were also conducted to determine the extent to which the factor structure was comparable across various sociodemographic groups and over time. RESULTS The results showed that both a one- and two-factor structure (representing somatic and cognitive-affective components) were invariant across sociodemographic groups and over time. The two-factor structure provided the best model fit. LIMITATIONS Results cannot be generalized to all primary care patients, as only patients whose general practitioners consider them to suffer emotional disorders were included. CONCLUSIONS Our study supports the reliability and validity of the one- and two-factor model of the GAD-7, both for screening purposes and for monitoring response to treatment.
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- Eliana Moreno
- Department of Psychology, Maimónides Institute for Research in Biomedicine of Cordoba-IMIBIC, Reina Sofía University Hospital, University of Córdoba, Av. Menéndez Pidal, s/n, 14004 Córdoba, Spain.
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- Department of Basic Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Valencia, Avd. Blasco Ibañez, 21, 46010, Valencia, Spain.
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- Mental Health Centre, University Hospital "Marqués de Valdecilla"- IDIVAL, Av. Valdecilla 25, 39008 Santander, Cantabria, Spain.
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- Castilla La Nueva Primary Care Centre, Health Service of Madrid, Calle Teruel, 4, 28941 Fuenlabrada, Madrid, Spain.
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- Department of Basic Psychology, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Campus de la UAB, Plaça Cívica, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain.
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- Faculty of Psychology, University Siglo 21, De los Latinos 8555, 5008 Córdoba, Argentina.
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- Department of Basic Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Complutense University of Madrid, Campus de Somosaguas, s/n, 28223 Madrid, Spain.
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- Department of Psychology, Maimónides Institute for Research in Biomedicine of Cordoba-IMIBIC, Reina Sofía University Hospital, University of Córdoba, Av. Menéndez Pidal, s/n, 14004 Córdoba, Spain.
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Ruiz-Rodríguez P, Cano-Vindel A, Muñoz-Navarro R, Wood CM, Medrano LA, Moretti LS. Cost-Effectiveness and Cost-Utility Analysis of the Treatment of Emotional Disorders in Primary Care: PsicAP Clinical Trial. Description of the Sub-study Design. Front Psychol 2018; 9:281. [PMID: 29559944 PMCID: PMC5845711 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00281] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2017] [Accepted: 02/19/2018] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Introduction: In the primary care (PC) setting in Spain, the prevalence of emotional disorders (EDs) such as anxiety, depression and somatoform disorder is high. In PC patients, these disorders are not always managed in accordance with the recommendations provided by clinical practice guidelines, resulting in major direct and indirect economic costs and suboptimal treatment outcomes. The aim is to analyze and compare the cost-effectiveness and cost-utility of group-based psychological therapy versus treatment as usual (TAU). Methods: Multicenter, randomized controlled trial involving 300 patients recruited from PC centers in Madrid, Spain, with symptoms or possible diagnosis of anxiety, mood (mild or moderate), or somatoform disorders. Patients will be randomized to one of two groups: an experimental group, which will receive group-based transdiagnostic cognitive-behavioral therapy (TD-CBT); and a control group, which will receive TAU (mainly pharmacological interventions) prescribed by their general practitioner (GP). Clinical assessment will be performed with the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ). Direct and indirect costs will be calculated and relevant socio-demographic variables will be registered. The Spanish version of the EuroQol 5D-5L will be administered. Patients will be assessed at baseline, immediately after treatment finalization, and at 6 and 12 months post-treatment. Discussion: To our knowledge, this is the first study to compare TD-CBT to TAU in the PC setting in Spain. This is the first comparative economic evaluation of these two treatment approaches in PC. The strength of the study is that it is a multicenter, randomized, controlled trial of psychotherapy and TAU for EDs in PC. Trial registration: Protocol code: ISCRCTN58437086; 20/05/2013. EUDRACT: 2013-001955-11. Protocol Version: 6, 11/01/2014.
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- Department of Basic Psychology II (Cognitive Processes), Faculty of Psychology, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Basic Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
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- Department of Basic Psychology II (Cognitive Processes), Faculty of Psychology, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Psychological Assessment, Universidad Siglo 21, Córdoba, Argentina
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Moretti LS, Medrano LA, Basler HD. Validación del Cuestionario de Lugar de Control del Dolor en estudiantes argentinos con cefaleas recurrentes. Pensam psicol 2015. [DOI: 10.11144/javerianacali.ppsi13-1.vclc] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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