Salas-Wright Christopher P, Schwartz Seth J, Mejía-Trujillo Juliana, Garcia Maria F, Sahbaz Sumeyra, Bates Melissa, Andrade Patricia, Perez-Gomez Augusto, Maldonado-Molina Mildred M
School of Social Work, Boston College.
Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, College of Education, University of Texas at Austin.
Psychol Trauma. 2024 Apr 18. doi: 10.1037/tra0001708.
Although prior research has shown that an array of distinct experiences related to crisis migration are associated with mental health, there is a pressing need for a theory-driven, multidimensional measure to assess the broad spectrum of crisis migration experiences. As such, the present study focused on developing and validating the Crisis Migration Experience Scale (CMES) with a sample of Venezuelan migrants in Colombia.
Participants were adolescent (ages 12-17; = 430) and adult migrants from Venezuela (ages 18+; = 569). Randomly splitting the adolescent and adult samples in half, exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analyses were conducted with 26 original items. After identifying a satisfactory factor structure to generate a 16-item CMES (CMES-16), we examined the associations of the CMES-16 with mental health outcomes.
We provide evidence for reliability, factorial validity, and concurrent validity of scores generated by the CMES-16 in a sample of Venezuelan crisis migrants in Colombia. Whereas our a priori conceptualization included seven domains, the exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses indicated that four are especially salient: material hardship, desperation, danger, and unplanned departure.
Crisis migration is an increasingly important construct frequently referenced in the literature on migrant health and by international humanitarian organizations. The number of crisis migrant groups worldwide is increasing, with Ukrainians and Afghans recently added to the list of such groups, along with Venezuelans, Syrians, South Sudanese, Iraqis, and Central Americans. Developing and validating the CMES-16 with Venezuelan crisis migrants opens up important avenues of research, including work that incorporates other crisis migrant populations. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).
尽管先前的研究表明，一系列与危机移民相关的不同经历与心理健康有关，但迫切需要一种理论驱动的多维测量方法来评估危机移民经历的广泛范围。因此，本研究聚焦于以哥伦比亚的委内瑞拉移民为样本，开发并验证危机移民经历量表（CMES）。
参与者为来自委内瑞拉的青少年（12 - 17岁；n = 430）和成年移民（18岁及以上；n = 569）。将青少年和成年样本随机分成两半，对26个原始项目进行探索性因素分析和验证性因素分析。在确定了一个令人满意的因素结构以生成一个16项的CMES（CMES - 16）后，我们检验了CMES - 16与心理健康结果之间的关联。
我们为CMES - 16在哥伦比亚的委内瑞拉危机移民样本中所产生分数的信度、因素效度和同时效度提供了证据。虽然我们的先验概念化包括七个领域，但探索性和验证性因素分析表明，其中四个尤为突出：物质困难、绝望、危险和意外离开。
危机移民是移民健康文献和国际人道主义组织中经常提及的一个日益重要的概念。全球危机移民群体的数量在增加，乌克兰人和阿富汗人最近加入了此类群体名单，此外还有委内瑞拉人、叙利亚人、南苏丹人、伊拉克人和中美洲人。以委内瑞拉危机移民为样本开发并验证CMES - 16开辟了重要的研究途径，包括纳入其他危机移民群体的研究。（PsycInfo数据库记录（c）2024美国心理学会，保留所有权利）
