Evaluation of the psychometric properties of the UBACC questionnaire in a multi-country psychiatric study in Africa.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The University of California, San Diego Brief Assessment of Capacity to Consent (UBACC) is a tool to assess the capacity of participants to consent in psychiatric research. However, little is known about the psychometric properties in low and middle-income countries. This study aimed to examine the psychometric properties of the UBACC.

Methods

We examined the reliability, latent factor structure, and item response of the first attempt of the UBACC items in a sample of 32,208 adults (16,467 individuals with psychosis and 15,741 controls) in Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, and Uganda; exploring these properties in the full sample and stratified by country, diagnostic status, sex, and ethnolinguistic language groups.

Results

Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) su

SUBMITTER: Kipkemoi P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12355974 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature