Scale of attitudes toward alcohol - Spanish version: evidences of validity and reliability

Abstract

Objective:validate the Scale of attitudes toward alcohol, alcoholism and individuals with alcohol use disorders in its Spanish version. Method:methodological study, involving 300 Colombian nurses. Adopting the classical theory, confirmatory factor analysis was applied without prior examination, based on the strong historical evidence of the factorial structure of the original scale to determine the construct validity of this Spanish version. To assess the reliability, Cronbach’s Alpha and Mc Donalid’s Omega coefficients were used. Results:the confirmatory factor analysis indicated the good fit of the scale model in a four-factor distribution, with a cut-off point at 3.2, demonstrating 66.7% of sensitivity. Conclusions:the Scale of attitudes toward alcohol, alcoholism and individuals with alcohol use disorders in Spanish presented robust psychometric qualities, affirming that the instrument possesses a solid factorial structure and reliability and is capable of precisely measuring the nurses’ atittudes towards the phenomenon proposed.

Emergency and Mental Health Nurses’ Perceptions and Attitudes towards Alcoholics

“…Therefore, professionals who had previously worked with drug-dependent patients exhibited decreased fear and anxiety. If we compare these findings with the degree of professionals’ satisfaction indicated by our findings, we can observe professionals’ negative attitudes towards alcoholics and, therefore, less motivation for providing care [24]. This coincides with the result of perceptions about alcoholics and studies that did not distinguish the substance consumed.…”

“…The Seaman–Mannello scale is a discrete quantitative scale, which is categorized, created, and validated by its authors in Buffalo (Nueva York) and later translated into Portuguese in Brazil by Pillon. A back-translation of the Portuguese version into Spanish was carried out by Villar to apply it in Bolivia, and it was later validated in its Spanish version for its use in Colombia by León and Vargas [ 24 ]. It consists of 30 items grouped into five subscales, to which the participants had to respond, according to their level of agreement or disagreement using a five-point Likert scale.…”

“…The Seaman–Mannello scale generated a Cronbach’s alpha of 0.693 for items that referred to the personal satisfaction of a professional working with alcoholics, 0.691 for the perception of dependence, and 0.775 for attitudes towards alcohol consumption. The factor analysis explained most factors up to 76% [ 24 ].…”

Emergency and Mental Health Nurses’ Perceptions and Attitudes towards Alcoholics

“…There are different instruments used for measuring nursing professionals' attitudes when working with alcoholics. However, most studies have used Seaman-Mannello scale (Allen, 1993;De Vargas & Labate, 2003, 2005Navarrete & Villar, 2004;Vasquez & Pillon, 2005;De Vargas & Luis, 2008;León & Vargas, 2017) and, as we previously mentioned, the results obtained by those studies were very similar to ours. All those studies concluded Preprints (www.preprints.org) | NOT PEER-REVIEWED | Posted: 19 July 2018 doi:10.20944/preprints201807.0364.v1…”

“…The Seaman-Mannello scale is a discrete quantitative scale, categorized, created, and validated by its authors in Buffalo (Nueva York) and later translated into Portuguese in Brazil by Pillon. A back-translation of the Portuguese version into Spanish was carried out by Villar to apply it in Bolivia, and was later validated in its Spanish version for use in Colombia by León and Vargas (León & Vargas, 2017). It consists of 30 items grouped into five subscales to which the participants had to respond according to their level of agreement or disagreement using a five-point Likert scale.…”