Dimensionality of the Spanish Version of the Universal Mental Health Literacy Scale Among Colombian Adults.

ABSTRACT: The Universal Mental Health Literacy Scale for Adolescents (UMHL-A) is a new 17-item tool designed to assess adolescents' mental health attitudes and knowledge. This scale can also be adapted for adults and is known as the UMHL. This study evaluated the dimensionality of the UMHL among Colombian adult high school students. A validation study involved 378 students aged 18-70 years (M = 20.06 and SD = 4.67), with 51.32% of the participants being female. The authors performed confirmatory factor analyses (CFAs) to compute loadings and goodness-of-fit statistics. Moreover, Kuder and Richardson's Formula 20 was calculated for dichotomous items, and Cronbach's alpha was calculated for Likert items to assess the internal consistency of each dimension. The CFA presented two subscales

SUBMITTER: Campo-Arias A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12767458 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature