eprintid: 17394 rev_number: 8 eprint_status: archive userid: 2 dir: disk0/00/01/73/94 datestamp: 2025-03-24 23:30:12 lastmod: 2025-03-24 23:30:13 status_changed: 2025-03-24 23:30:12 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Mejia, Christian R. creators_name: Paucar, Medally C. creators_name: Mamani-Benito, Oscar creators_name: Requena, Tatiana creators_name: Castillo-Vilela, Nino creators_name: Alvarez-Risco, Aldo creators_name: Armada, Jose creators_name: Ramos-Quispe, Teresa creators_name: Palomino-Vargas, Victor creators_name: Davies, Neal M. creators_name: Del-Aguila-Arcentales, Shyla creators_name: Yáñez, Jaime A. creators_id: creators_id: creators_id: creators_id: creators_id: creators_id: creators_id: creators_id: creators_id: creators_id: creators_id: creators_id: jaime.yanez@unini.edu.mx title: Understanding the reasons to avoid seeking mental health professionals: Validation of the MITOS-MENTAL questionnaire in Peru population ispublished: pub subjects: uneat_ps divisions: uneatlantico_produccion_cientifica full_text_status: public keywords: Validation; Mental health; Peru; Health professionals; Population abstract: There is still much resistance, myths, beliefs, and misconceptions regarding the seeking of mental health services for diagnosis and treatment. The objective was to validate an instrument to determine why Peruvian workers would not seek mental health professionals. In an instrumental study, literature was searched, and mental health professionals were asked about the most common reasons for not attending consultations. An expert panel undertook exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses (CFA), which were applied to a large population. Descriptive and instrumental statistics were used for the data. The 20 experts gave excellent ratings to the initial questions. In the pilot (250 people), it was confirmed that all questions had saturations >0.40. The item modification technique was also performed, eliminating six questions. With the CFA in 1312 respondents, it was seen that the goodness-of-fit indices were not adequate for three questions, then the index modification technique was used, achieving a satisfactory factorial structure model (χ2 = 61.497; df = 9; p < 0.001; RMR = 0.015; TLI = 0.984; CFI = 0.990, and RMSEA = 0.067). A scale of six questions was validated to measure the most important reasons why Peruvian workers do not want to attend mental health consultations. date: 2025-03 publication: Acta Psychologica volume: 254 pagerange: 104858 id_number: doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.104858 refereed: TRUE issn: 00016918 official_url: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.104858 access: open language: en citation: Artículo Materias > Psicología Universidad Europea del Atlántico > Investigación > Artículos y libros Abierto Inglés There is still much resistance, myths, beliefs, and misconceptions regarding the seeking of mental health services for diagnosis and treatment. The objective was to validate an instrument to determine why Peruvian workers would not seek mental health professionals. In an instrumental study, literature was searched, and mental health professionals were asked about the most common reasons for not attending consultations. An expert panel undertook exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses (CFA), which were applied to a large population. Descriptive and instrumental statistics were used for the data. The 20 experts gave excellent ratings to the initial questions. In the pilot (250 people), it was confirmed that all questions had saturations >0.40. The item modification technique was also performed, eliminating six questions. With the CFA in 1312 respondents, it was seen that the goodness-of-fit indices were not adequate for three questions, then the index modification technique was used, achieving a satisfactory factorial structure model (χ2 = 61.497; df = 9; p < 0.001; RMR = 0.015; TLI = 0.984; CFI = 0.990, and RMSEA = 0.067). A scale of six questions was validated to measure the most important reasons why Peruvian workers do not want to attend mental health consultations. metadata Mejia, Christian R.; Paucar, Medally C.; Mamani-Benito, Oscar; Requena, Tatiana; Castillo-Vilela, Nino; Alvarez-Risco, Aldo; Armada, Jose; Ramos-Quispe, Teresa; Palomino-Vargas, Victor; Davies, Neal M.; Del-Aguila-Arcentales, Shyla y Yáñez, Jaime A. mail SIN ESPECIFICAR, SIN ESPECIFICAR, SIN ESPECIFICAR, SIN ESPECIFICAR, SIN ESPECIFICAR, SIN ESPECIFICAR, SIN ESPECIFICAR, SIN ESPECIFICAR, SIN ESPECIFICAR, SIN ESPECIFICAR, SIN ESPECIFICAR, jaime.yanez@unini.edu.mx (2025) Understanding the reasons to avoid seeking mental health professionals: Validation of the MITOS-MENTAL questionnaire in Peru population. Acta Psychologica, 254. p. 104858. ISSN 00016918 document_url: http://repositorio.uneatlantico.es/id/eprint/17394/1/1-s2.0-S0001691825001714-main.pdf