Translation, Adaptation, and Validation of the Health Professionals’ Attitudes Towards the Homeless Inventory (HPATHI) to Spanish for Puerto Rican Health Professionals
Keywords:
Homeless, Health Professionals, Attitudes, Inventory, Scale, Puerto RicoAbstract
The purpose of this study was to translate, adapt, and initially validate the Health Professional’s Attitude Toward the Homeless Inventory (HPATHI) for Puerto Rican health professionals in Puerto Rico. The original HPATHI was translated by a bilingual certified in translation who translated the original instrument to the target language. The translated version was analyzed and modified for cultural adaptation purposes by the consensus of a committee of graduate psychology students and licensed psychologists. Afterwards the culturally adapted version was back translated and compared to the original instrument. The sample was innovative given that it included mental health professionals. The final sample size consisted of N = 86 Puerto Rican participants born and currently residing on the island between the ages of 23 and 74 years (M=34.62, SD=12.45) of which 63 were women (73.3%) and 23 were men (26.7%). Cronbach’s alpha internal consistency measure produced an a = .84 coefficient for the whole 14-item HPATHI-Spanish instrument. Factor 1, labeled Cynicism, produced a Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of a = .77, Factor 2, labeled Personal Advocacy, produced a Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of a = .80, and Factor 3, labeled Social Advocacy, produced a Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of a = .60. This study provides initial evidence of the HPATHI-Spanish’s usefulness in identifying health professionals’ negative attitudes toward homeless individuals, and with further research could potentially be used to measure attitude change.
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