Predicting resilient adolescents and youths: validation of a screening test in Colombia.
BACKGROUND
This article presents the validation of the Child and Youth Resilience Measure-58 (CYRM-58) in the Colombian context and in Spanish language.


METHODS
CYRM-58 has 58 questions and was developed by an international team of researchers coordinated by the Resilience Research Centre (Dalhousie University, Canada). Simplified CYRM Colombia is a test that uses 7 questions of CYRM-58; for its validation we tested reproducibility in 22 persons aged 14 to 23 years.


RESULTS
We validated content and internal consistency in 39 resilients, 43 youth with deviant behaviors, and 66 controls matched by age and sex. We estimated internal consistency by non-parametric factorial analysis, and we assessed content validity by means of the Mann-Whitney test, bootstrap regression and logistic regression. The reproducibility was found to be in the range of 75-86%. Correlation between measurements was 75%.


CONCLUSIONS
The best predictive model or Simplified CYRM Colombia was found to have seven questions (sensitivity = 96%, specificity = 76%, power = 80%).
School of Public Health, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia.
Nilton
N
Montoya
Alexandra
A
Restrepo
Luis Fernando
LF
Duque
Michael
M
Ungar
D000293:Adolescent; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D003105:Colombia; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening; D011581:Psychological Tests; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D055500:Resilience, Psychological; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D014754:Violence / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult