Cultural adaptation to Bolivian Quechua and psychometric analysis of the Patient Health Questionnaire PHQ-9

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Authors

Juan Carlos Bazo‐Alvarez · Universidad César Vallejo

A. Aparicio · Bolivia Adventist University

Rodrigo Robles-Mariños · Peruvian University of Applied Sciences

Félix Julca Guerrero · Universidad Nacional Santiago Antúnez de Mayolo

Heber Gómez Hurtado · Universidad Tecnológica del Perú

Oscar Bazo-Alvarez · Universidad Privada San Juan Bautista

Julio Cjuno

Abstract

The PHQ-9 adapted to Bolivian Quechua offers a valid, reliable and invariant unidimensional measurement across groups by sex, age, marital status, educational level and residence.

Topics & Keywords

Community Health and Development Public Health and Social Inequalities Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Quality Education

Publication Details

Published in: BMC Public Health

Volume 24, Issue 1, pp. 129-129

DOI: 10.1186/s12889-023-17566-8

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