title: Spanish, French, and British cross-cultural validation of the European Brain Injury Questionnaire.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To explore the factor structure of the European Brain Injury Questionnaire and to assess the cross-cultural and construct validity of this questionnaire by using Rasch analysis.
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 366 individuals with traumatic brain injury or stroke were recruited from 3 different countries: Spain (116 participants), the United Kingdom (110 participants), and France (140 participants).
  
  
  METHODS
  We first performed a factor analysis and then applied Rasch analysis to the resulting factors to examine construct and cross-cultural validity.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Three subscales labeled Depressive Mood, Cognitive Dysfunction, and Poor Social and Emotional Self-regulation were extracted using the factor analysis. In the Rasch analyses, 8 items were removed because of misfit and 7 items showed differential item functioning by country.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Rasch analyses showed good fit to the model, unidimensionality, construct validity, and good reliability of the 3 European Brain Injury Questionnaire subscales. However, only the Depressive and Cognitive subscales showed cross-cultural validity.
authors.affiliation: Personalidad, Evaluación y Tratamiento Psicológico Department and Neurosciences Institute F. Olóriz, University of Granada, Spain. acaracuel@ugr.es
authors.forename: Alfonso
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Caracuel
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bateman
authors.forename: Thomas W
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Teasdale
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Verdejo-García
authors.forename: Miguel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pérez-García
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D003071:Cognition; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011594:Psychometrics; D012919:Social Behavior; D013030:Spain; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D006113:United Kingdom; D055815:Young Adult