Design and Cross-Cultural Invariance of the COVID-19 Vaccine Conspiracy Beliefs Scale (COVID-VCBS) in 13 Latin American Countries.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Over the past 2 years, the vaccine conspiracy beliefs construct has been used in a number of different studies. These publications have assessed the determinants and outcomes of vaccine conspiracy beliefs using, in some cases, pooled data from different countries, and compared the results across these contexts. However, studies often do not consider measurement invariance as a necessary requirement for comparative analyses. Therefore, the aim of this study was to develop and evaluate the cross-cultural MI of the COVID-19 Vaccine Conspiracy Beliefs Scale (COVID-VCBS) in 12 Latin American countries.

Methods

Confirmatory factor analysis, item response theory analysis and alignment method were applied to test measurement invariance in a large number of groups.

Results

SUBMITTER: Caycho-Rodriguez T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9237359 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature