Resumen

MORA-RIOS, Jazmín; BAUTISTA-AGUILAR, Natalia; NATERA, Guillermina  y  PEDERSEN, Duncan. Cultural adaptation of instruments to measure stigma and mental illness in Mexico City. Salud Ment [online]. 2013, vol.36, n.1, pp.9-18. ISSN 0185-3325.

This article forms part of a collaborative study in which research teams from Canada and Mexico participated. The general objective is to describe the cultural adaptation and semantic validation of three instruments for measuring stigma and mental illness in Mexico City. The criteria of understanding, acceptance, relevance and semantic integrity were used to adapt the following instruments: The Internalized Stigma Inventory (ISMI), the Opinions on Mental Illness Survey (OMI) and the Devaluation and Discrimination Scale (DDS). Four Individual interviews and four group interviews were carried out with 37 informants from different groups (health personnel, persons with diagnostic of mental disorders, relatives and the general population). Lastly, an analysis was carried out on the contents of the information obtained. The instruments proved to be culturally appropriate for the population in Mexico in the various groups studied. The adapted versions would be useful for establishing comparative analyses with other countries. The scope and limitations of the process of semantic equivalence were analyzed in the transcultural research.

Palabras llave : Cultural adaptation; semantic validation; Opinions on Mental Illness (OMI); the Devaluation and Discrimination Scale (DDS); The Inventory of Internalized Stigma of Mental Illness (ISMI); Mexico.