Measurement of Risk Factors Associated With bereavement Severity and Deterioration by COVID-19: A Spanish Validation Study of the Pandemic Grief Risk Factors

CAYCHO-RODRÍGUEZ, TOMÁS; LEE, SHERMAN A.; VILCA, LINDSEY W.; CARBAJAL-LEÓN, CARLOS; REYES-BOSSIO, MARIO; DELGADO-CAMPUSANO, MARIEL; GALLEGOS, MIGUEL; CARRANZA ESTEBAN, RENZO; NOE-GRIJALVA, MARTIN

Omega (United States)

SAGE Publications Inc.

Año: 2022

0030-2228

The present study translated and evaluated the psychometric evidence of the Pandemic Grief Risk Factors (PGRF) in a sample of 363 people from the general population of Peru who suffered the death of a loved one by COVID-19 (63-4% women and 36.6% men, where 78.5% were between 18 and 29 years old). The findings indicated that the PGRF is a unidimensional and reliable measure. The PGRF items can differentiate between individuals with different levels of risk factors and thus cover a wide range of the latent construct. Also, a greater sense of distress for each of the risk factors for pandemic grief is necessary to answer the higher response categories. Risk factors significantly and positively predict COVID-19-associated dysfunctional grief. The results indicated that the PGRF in Spanish is a measure with adequate psychometric properties to measure risk factors for pandemic grief.