Confirmatory Factor Analysis Of The Family APGAR Questionnaire

Adalberto Campo-Arias; Carmen Cecilia Caballero-Domínguez

doi:10.1016/j.rcp.2020.01.003

Confirmatory Factor Analysis Of The Family APGAR Questionnaire

Rev Colomb Psiquiatr (Engl Ed). 2020 Mar 31:S0034-7450(20)30022-6. doi: 10.1016/j.rcp.2020.01.003. Online ahead of print.

[Article in English, Spanish]

Authors

Adalberto Campo-Arias¹, Carmen Cecilia Caballero-Domínguez²

Affiliations

¹ Programa de Medicina, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad del Magdalena, Santa Marta, Colombia. Electronic address: acampoa@unimagdalena.edu.co.
² Programa de Psicología, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad del Magdalena, Santa Marta, Colombia.

PMID: 33735037
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcp.2020.01.003

Abstract

Introduction: In Colombia, the family APGAR questionnaire is often used to evaluate family function. However, there is no confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to corroborate the proposed one-dimensional structure in Colombian adolescent students.

Objective: To perform CFA on the APGAR family questionnaire in high-school students of Santa Marta, Colombia.

Method: A total of 1462 students of tenth and eleventh grade of official and private schools completed the family APGAR questionnaire. Students between 13 and 17 years old (M=16.0, SD=0.8) were included, of which 60.3% were female, and 55.3% were tenth grade students. The χ², RMSEA, CFI, TLI and SMSR were estimated in the CFA. The internal consistency of the dimension was calculated with Cronbach alpha and McDonald omega coefficients.

Results: In the CFA the indexes were χ²=9.11, df=5, P=.105; RMSEA=.024 (CI90%, .000-.048), CFI=.998, TLI=.996, and SMSR=.009. Cronbach alpha coefficient was .819 and McDonald omega, .820.

Conclusions: The one-dimensional structure of the APGAR family scale is confirmed in high-school students of Santa Marta, Colombia. This questionnaire is reliable and valid for the measurement of family function in school-aged adolescents.

Keywords: Adolescent; Adolescente; Confiabilidad y validez; Estudiantes; Estudios de validación; Family relations; Relaciones familiares; Reliability and validity; Students; Validation studies.