title: Cross-cultural validation and psychometric evaluation of the Spanish Brief Religious Coping Scale (S-BRCS).
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the psychometric properties of the Spanish Brief Religious Coping Scale (S-BRCS).
  
  
  METHODS
  A descriptive correlational design was used to conduct the study among a convenience sample of 121 Mexican Americans with diabetes.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The positive and negative religious coping subscales had Cronbach’s alphas of .85 and .86, respectively. All interitem and item-to-total correlations for each subscale were above the recommended criteria of .30. Factor loadings of the positive subscale using oblique (oblimin) and orthogonal (varimax) rotation ranged from .71 to .86 and from .72 to .86, respectively.Factor loadings of the negative subscale using oblimin and varimax rotation ranged from .64 to .83 and from .63 to .83,respectively.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The S-BRCS was found to be a valid and reliable instrument to measure religious coping among Spanish-speaking Mexican Americans with type 2 diabetes. IMPLICATIONS FOR FURTHER RESEARCH AND PRACTICE: Further psychometric evaluation of the S-BRCS among larger sample of Mexican Americans and other Hispanic ethnic groups is warranted. The S-BRCS has the potential to become a standard instrument that can be used by clinicians who work with Hispanic clients with diabetes mellitus to provide culturally competent diabetes care.
authors.affiliation: The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79902, USA. ncmartinez@utep.edu
authors.forename: Nelda C
authors.initials: NC
authors.lastname: Martinez
authors.forename: Valmi D
authors.initials: VD
authors.lastname: Sousa
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003142:Communication; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D003469:Culture; D003625:Data Collection; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D025341:Principal Component Analysis; D011594:Psychometrics; D012067:Religion; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D013781:Texas / Q000208:ethnology