Salamanca-Camargo Yenny, Muela-Martínez José Antonio, Espinosa-Fernandez Lourdes, Díaz-Castela Mª Del Mar
Shool of Psychology, Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia, Tunja 150001, Colombia.
Departament of Psychology, Lagunillas Campus, Universidad de Jaén, 23071 Jaén, Spain.
Healthcare (Basel). 2025 Apr 14;13(8):900. doi: 10.3390/healthcare13080900.
BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: In adolescence, anxiety disorders are the most prevalent, besides being highly comorbid, with a tendency to chronicity and persistence in adulthood; although there are different assessment measures with good psychometric properties, in Colombia there are no instruments that include the new international diagnostic classifications, aspects that may hinder accurate diagnosis and consequent care. This psychometric study aimed to adapt and validate the Anxiety Scale for Adolescents YAM-5, part I.
A review of the items of the instrument was carried out, seeking to identify possible difficulties in the use of terms according to the culture; a sample of 536 adolescents linked to different public and private educational institutions from the five regions of the country was applied. The analysis of the instrument was based on the analysis of its reliability by means of Cronbach's Alpha Coefficient, the construct validity by means of the Exploratory Factor Analysis using the principal components method, and, finally, the Confirmatory Factor Analysis using the Structural Equations technique.
An internal consistency of 0.93 and a structural validity with a construct of five correlated dimensions were identified, which best fitted the data collected.
The structure examined provides high reliability and structural validity, highlighting benefits such as being of screening type, its low cost, and application aimed at non-clinical populations from the perspective of Colombian adolescents.
背景/目的：在青少年时期，焦虑症最为普遍，且高度共病，成年后有慢性化和持续存在的倾向；尽管有不同的评估方法具有良好的心理测量特性，但在哥伦比亚，尚无包含新的国际诊断分类的工具，这些方面可能会妨碍准确诊断及后续治疗。这项心理测量研究旨在改编并验证青少年焦虑量表YAM - 5第一部分。
对该工具的条目进行审查，以确定根据文化背景在术语使用上可能存在的困难；对来自该国五个地区不同公立和私立教育机构的536名青少年进行了抽样调查。对该工具的分析基于通过克朗巴哈α系数分析其信度、使用主成分法通过探索性因素分析分析其结构效度，最后使用结构方程技术进行验证性因素分析。
确定了内部一致性为0.93以及具有五个相关维度结构的结构效度，这与所收集的数据拟合度最佳。
所检验的结构具有高信度和结构效度，突出了诸如筛查类型、低成本以及从哥伦比亚青少年角度针对非临床人群应用等优点。
