Caterina Calderon, Pere J Ferrando, Urbano Lorenzo-Seva, Estrella Ferreira, Elena Sorribes, Raquel Hernández, Irina Planellas-Kircnher, Luka Mihic-Gongora, Maria J Corral, Paula Jiménez-Fonseca
BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties, differential item functioning, factorial invariance, and convergent validity of the Spanish version of the Herth Hope Index (HHI) in patients with cancer. METHOD: Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were conducted to explore the scale, dimensionality, functioning of items, test for strong measurement invariance across sex, age, tumor site, and expected survival, and an extended structural equation model to assess external validity in a cross-sectional, multicenter, prospective study of 863 cancer patients from 15 Spanish hospitals...
2024: Psicothema