{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Kipkemoi P"],"funding":["FIC NIH HHS","NIMH NIH HHS","Broad Institute Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research"],"pagination":["152526"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC12355974"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["135"],"pubmed_abstract":["<h4>Background</h4>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.<h4>Methods</h4>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.<h4>Results</h4>Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) su"],"journal":["Comprehensive psychiatry"],"pubmed_title":["Evaluation of the psychometric properties of the UBACC questionnaire in a multi-country psychiatric study in Africa."],"pmcid":["PMC12355974"],"funding_grant_id":["K01 TW012180","U01 MH125045","R01 MH120642","U01 MH125047"],"pubmed_authors":["Stroud RE","Mufford MS","Gelaye B","Korte KJ","Kyebuzibwa J","Kipkemoi P","Atwoli L","Mwema RM","Alemayehu M","Zingela Z","Kwobah E","Stevenson A","Chibnik LB","Kariuki SM","Stein DJ","Gichuru S","Koenen KC","Pretorius A","Akena D","Newton CRJC","Post K","Teferra S"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Evaluation of the psychometric properties of the UBACC questionnaire in a multi-country psychiatric study in Africa.","description":"<h4>Background</h4>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.<h4>Methods</h4>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.<h4>Results</h4>Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) su","dates":{"release":"2024-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2024 Nov","modification":"2026-04-30T19:38:31.721Z","creation":"2026-04-07T16:18:55.637Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC12355974","cross_references":{"pubmed":["39208558"],"doi":["10.1016/j.comppsych.2024.152526"]}}