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| Psychometric properties of the Inventory of Attitudes Toward Seeking Mental Health Services (Chinese version) |
| Author(s) | Yvonne Tieu, Candace Konnert, Leanne Quigley |
| Journal title | Canadian Journal on Aging, vol 37, no 2, June 2018 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, June 2018 |
| Pages | pp 234-244 |
| Source | http://www.cambridge.org/cjg |
| Keywords | Mental health [elderly] ; Services ; Usage [services] ; Attitude ; Measurement ; Instruments ; Ethnic groups [elderly] ; Immigrants [elderly] ; Chinese people ; Canada. |
| Annotation | Research on underutilisation patterns of mental health services among older Chinese immigrants is limited, partly due to the absence of translated, psychometrically sound measures for assessing attitudes towards seeking help. In this study 200 older Chinese Canadian immigrants were interviewed using a translated version of the Inventory of Attitudes Toward Seeking Mental Health Services scale (IASMHS), and mental health care utilisation over the previous 12 months was assessed alongside intentions to seek help. Confirmatory factor analysis failed to replicate the original three-factor structure. Hence the study used exploratory factor analysis to create a 20-item Chinese version, the C-IASMHS. It had acceptable internal consistency and was positively correlated with intentions to seek help. The Help Seeking Propensity subscale had the strongest psychometric properties whereas the Psychological Openness subscale performed poorly based on factor analysis results and unacceptable internal consistency. Future research should focus on the conceptual equivalence of psychological openness among Chinese older adults. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-180525247 A |
| Classmark | D: I: QLD: DP: 3R: YW4: F:TK: F:TJ: TKL: 7S |
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