Department of Toxicology and Pharmacology Postgraduate Program in Health Sciences, Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre 90050-170, RS, Brazil.
Department of Behavioral Sciences Methodology, Faculty of Psychology and Speech Therapy, University of Valencia, 46010 Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2024 Sep 18;21(9):1230. doi: 10.3390/ijerph21091230.
The enabling behaviors of family members of psychoactive substance users can be crucial in maintaining addiction. There are no psychometrically evaluated instruments to measure the frequency of the enabling behaviors of family members of psychoactive substance users. Therefore, this study aimed to assess the internal consistency and factor structure of the Behavioral Enabling Scale.
A cross-sectional study was carried out, with a secondary analysis of data collected from 400 family members of psychoactive substance users that used a hotline service in Brazil. Exploratory factor analysis was conducted with an initial sample of 200 protocols, and with the remaining 200 protocols, a confirmatory factor analysis was conducted.
The internal consistency estimate proved entirely satisfactory in both samples, where the first presented a Cronbach's alpha of 0.76 and the second had a consistency estimate of 0.79. Factor analysis was conducted using a shortened version of the instrument, with 15 items, during which six factors that cover 65% of the scale's explained variance were extracted. KMO = 0.68 and Bartlett's test of sphericity = X (gl = 153) 497.201, < 0.0001, were significant.
The Brazilian version of the Behavioral Enabling Scale is a valid tool that measures the frequency of the enabling behaviors of family members of psychoactive substance users. The measurement instrument enables further investigations into the behavior of family members regarding the use of psychoactive substances by their relatives.
物质使用障碍患者家属的助长行为对于维持成瘾可能至关重要。目前尚无经过心理计量学评估的工具来衡量物质使用障碍患者家属助长行为的频率。因此，本研究旨在评估行为助长量表的内部一致性和因子结构。
本研究为横断面研究，对巴西热线服务中 400 名物质使用障碍患者家属的资料进行了二次分析。对 200 份初始方案进行了探索性因子分析，对剩余的 200 份方案进行了验证性因子分析。
两个样本的内部一致性估计均非常令人满意，其中第一个样本的 Cronbach's alpha 值为 0.76，第二个样本的一致性估计值为 0.79。使用该工具的缩短版本进行因子分析，提取了 15 个项目，共提取出 6 个因子，涵盖了量表解释方差的 65%。KMO=0.68，Bartlett 球形检验 X（gl=153）=497.201， < 0.0001，均有统计学意义。
巴西版行为助长量表是一种有效的工具，可衡量物质使用障碍患者家属助长行为的频率。该测量工具可进一步调查家属对亲属使用精神活性物质的行为。
