Tamizaje de riesgos en salud mental: estructura factorial por características sociodemográficas durante la COVID-19

Introduction: the COVID-19 pandemic is associated with mental health symptoms. Objective: to screen symptoms by validating factor structure of screening test related sociodemographic variables during pandemic. Method: we worked 36,811 Mexican (M = 34 years; SD 11.68), 61.8% (22,743) women, 15.3% (5,643) losing loved ones, 12.7% (4,683) having a condition, and 8.22% (3,027) sought remote psychological care. We required participants answer Posttraumatic Stress Checklist (PCL-C), Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ), Goldberg’s Generalized Anxiety Questionnaire, Anxiety, Somatization tests in WebApp. Results: Confirmatory Factor Analysis indicated good structures measurement invariances scales because participants´ characteristics their structural equation model. Discussion: therefore, Women showed re-experimentation, numbing, anxiety, somatization Grieving or suffering condition generalized anxiety. People seeking care reported Also, avoidance predicted re-experimentation anxiety somatization, depression, denoted hyperarousal Depression numbing Conclusions: there are risks people loved-one losses, those Future research will show how early interventions interrupt