[Inventory of experiences in grief (IEG): adaptation to Spanish, reliability and validity].
OBJECTIVE
To adapt to Castilian the Inventory of Experiences of Grief (IEG) of Catherine Sanders et al. (1977) and study its reliability and validity.


METHODS
In two stages: cross-cultural adaptation of a questionnaire and cross-sectional study with control group.


METHODS
Primary care teams in Vizcaya.


METHODS
147 people bereaved in the period between 3 months and 3 years before the study, and 36 who had lost no direct family member in the previous 5 years.


RESULTS
The IEG in American English was translated, back-translated and finally reviewed by Sanders and her colleagues, whose valuation was that the Castilian version was the same as the original. Reliability: the internal consistency of each of the scales of grief on the IEG (Cronbach's alpha) ran from 0.43 to 0.85. Factor validity: the first IEG factor adapted was similar to the original one (despair, somatization, anger, blame, depersonalisation and social isolation). Discriminating validity: all the grief scales on the IEG, except anxiety in face of death, discriminated (p < 0.05) between grieving and not grieving. Validity by hypothesis: the IEG scales showed differences (p < 0.05) between the bereaved according to sex, age, place of death of the spouse and time elapsed since death. Convergent validity: all the IEG grief scales correlated positively (p < 0.05) with the scales in the Texas Revised Inventory of Grief.


CONCLUSIONS
The IEG adapted to Castilian is equivalent to the original and has similar reliability and validity.
Grupo de Estudios de Duelo, Centro de Salud de Kueto, Gran Vía, s/n. 48910 Sestao, Vizcaya. jagarciag@jet.es
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García-García
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Landa Petralanda
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Trigueros Manzano
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Gaminde Inda
D001293:Attitude to Death; D003469:Culture; D004644:Emotions; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards*; D017805:Widowhood / Q000523:psychology