The Transcultural Community Resilience Scale: Psychometric Properties and Multinational Validity in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Jude Mary Cénat; Rose Darly Dalexis; Daniel Derivois; Martine Hébert; Saba Hajizadeh; Cyrille Kossigan Kokou-Kpolou; Mireille Guerrier; Cécile Rousseau

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.713477

The Transcultural Community Resilience Scale: Psychometric Properties and Multinational Validity in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Front Psychol. 2021 Aug 19:12:713477. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.713477. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Jude Mary Cénat¹, Rose Darly Dalexis², Daniel Derivois³, Martine Hébert⁴, Saba Hajizadeh¹, Cyrille Kossigan Kokou-Kpolou¹, Mireille Guerrier¹, Cécile Rousseau⁵

Affiliations

¹ School of Psychology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
² Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
³ Université Bourgogne Franche Comté, Dijon, France.
⁴ Department of Sexology, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Montréal, QC, Canada.
⁵ Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada.

Abstract

Few instruments assess community resilience. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the capacity of communities to support resilience of members deserves to be assessed to develop programs for improving mental health of affected populations. This article presents the development of the Ottawa-Community Resilience Scale (O-CRS), its underlying factorial structure and transcultural validity with a multilingual (English, French, Creole, Kinyarwanda), multinational (DR Congo, Haiti, Rwanda, Togo) and multicultural sample affected by this pandemic. A sample of 1,267 participants (40.9% women) were recruited in the four countries: DRC (n = 626, 43.4% women), Haiti (n = 225, 42.0% women), Rwanda (n = 174, 40.5% women), and Togo (n = 242, 33.2% women), with a mean age of 32 (SD = 10.1). They completed measures assessing individual resilience, depression and the O-CRS. Exploratory and confirmatory Factor Analyses, Cronbach alpha, coefficient H and the McDonald's Omega, and bivariate regression were used to estimate the underlying components of the O-CRS, its internal consistency and concurrent validity. Parallel factorial analysis and confirmatory factor analysis results revealed an excellent fit 3-factor structure. Internal consistency coefficients varied between 0.82 and 0.95. The O-CRS showed a good construct validity with a positive association with individual resilience and negative association with depression score. Developed with a collaborative approach involving researchers, practitioners, and clients/patients, the O-CRS and its three factors (community strengths and support, community trust and faith, and community values) demonstrated excellent psychometric properties for assessing community resilience among adults during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Keywords: Transcultural Community Resilience Scale psychometric properties; depression; multilingual sample; multinational sample; multinational validation.