Measurement of Risk Factors Associated With bereavement Severity and Deterioration by COVID-19: A Spanish Validation Study of the Pandemic Grief Risk Factors

Caycho-Rodríguez T.; Lee S.A.; Vilca L.W.; Carbajal-León C.; Reyes-Bossio M.; Delgado-Campusano M.; Gallegos M.; Carranza Esteban R.; Noe-Grijalva M. · Omega (United States) (2025) · DOI: 10.1177/00302228221124987

Resumen

The present study translated and evaluated the psychometric evidence of the Pandemic Grief Risk Factors (PGRF) in a sample of 363 people from the general population of Peru who suffered the death of a loved one by COVID-19 (63-4% women and 36.6% men, where 78.5% were between 18 and 29 years old). The findings indicated that the PGRF is a unidimensional and reliable measure. The PGRF items can differentiate between individuals with different levels of risk factors and thus cover a wide range of the latent construct. Also, a greater sense of distress for each of the risk factors for pandemic grief is necessary to answer the higher response categories. Risk factors significantly and positively predict COVID-19-associated dysfunctional grief. The results indicated that the PGRF in Spanish is a measure with adequate psychometric properties to measure risk factors for pandemic grief. © The Author(s) 2022.

Instituciones: Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas; Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola; Universidad Privada Norbert Wiener; Universidad César Vallejo; Universidad Privada del Norte