Validation of the Spanish-language Cardiff Anomalous Perception Scale

PLoS One. 2019 Mar 6;14(3):e0213425. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0213425. eCollection 2019.

Abstract

The Cardiff Anomalous Perceptions Scale (CAPS) is a psychometric measure of hallucinatory experience. It has been widely used in English and used in initial studies in Spanish but a full validation study has not yet been published. We report a validation study of the Spanish-language CAPS, conducted in both Spain and Colombia to cover both European and Latin American Spanish. The Spanish-language version of the CAPS was produced through back translation with slight modifications made for local dialects. In Spain, 329 non-clinical participants completed the CAPS along with 40 patients with psychosis. In Colombia, 190 non-clinical participants completed the CAPS along with 21 patients with psychosis. Participants completed other psychometric scales measuring psychosis-like experience to additionally test convergent and divergent validity. The Spanish-language CAPS was found to have good internal reliability. Test-retest reliability was slightly below the cut-off, although could only be tested in the Spanish non-clinical sample. The scale showed solid construct validity and a principal components analysis broadly replicated previously reported three component factor structures for the CAPS.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Validation Study

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Colombia
  • Cross-Sectional Studies
  • Female
  • Hallucinations / diagnosis*
  • Humans
  • Language
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Principal Component Analysis
  • Psychometrics / methods*
  • Psychometrics / statistics & numerical data
  • Psychotic Disorders / diagnosis
  • Self Report
  • Spain
  • Translations
  • Young Adult