Predicting resilient adolescents and youths: validation of a screening test in Colombia

Issues Compr Pediatr Nurs. 2011;34(4):167-88. doi: 10.3109/01460862.2011.619400.

Abstract

Background: This article presents the validation of the Child and Youth Resilience Measure-58 (CYRM-58) in the Colombian context and in Spanish language.

Methods: CYRM-58 has 58 questions and was developed by an international team of researchers coordinated by the Resilience Research Centre (Dalhousie University, Canada). Simplified CYRM Colombia is a test that uses 7 questions of CYRM-58; for its validation we tested reproducibility in 22 persons aged 14 to 23 years.

Results: We validated content and internal consistency in 39 resilients, 43 youth with deviant behaviors, and 66 controls matched by age and sex. We estimated internal consistency by non-parametric factorial analysis, and we assessed content validity by means of the Mann-Whitney test, bootstrap regression and logistic regression. The reproducibility was found to be in the range of 75-86%. Correlation between measurements was 75%.

Conclusion: The best predictive model or Simplified CYRM Colombia was found to have seven questions (sensitivity = 96%, specificity = 76%, power = 80%).

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Validation Study

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Case-Control Studies
  • Colombia
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Logistic Models
  • Male
  • Mass Screening*
  • Psychological Tests*
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Resilience, Psychological*
  • Sensitivity and Specificity
  • Violence / psychology*
  • Young Adult