Validation of the Attitudes Towards Psychological Online Interventions Questionnaire Among Black Americans: Cross-cultural Confirmatory Factor Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Acceptability of digital mental health interventions is a significant predictor of treatment-seeking behavior and engagement. However, acceptability has been conceptualized and operationalized in various ways, which decreases measurement precision and leads to heterogeneous conclusions about acceptability. Standardized self-report measures of acceptability have been developed, which have the potential to ameliorate these problems, but none have demonstrated evidence for validation among Black communities, which limits our understanding of attitudes toward these interventions among racially minoritized groups with well-documented barriers to mental health treatment.

Objective

This study aims to examine the psychometric validity and reliability of one of the first a

SUBMITTER: Ellis DM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10176146 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature