A Psychometric Analysis of the Spanish Version of the Grief Impairment Scale: A Screening Tool of Biopsychosocial Grief-Related Functional Impairment in a Salvadoran Sample

Tomás Caycho-Rodríguez; Sherman A. Lee; Lindsey W. Vilca; Marlon Elías Lobos-Rivera; Angélica Nohemy Flores-Monterrosa; Jennyfer Carolina Tejada Rodríguez; Edgardo René Chacón-Andrade; Wendy Carolina Marroquín-Carpio; Carlos Carbajal-León; Mario Reyes-Bossio; Mariel Delgado-Campusano; Julio Torales

doi:10.1177/00302228231175383

A Psychometric Analysis of the Spanish Version of the Grief Impairment Scale: A Screening Tool of Biopsychosocial Grief-Related Functional Impairment in a Salvadoran Sample

Tomás Caycho-Rodríguez
, Sherman A. Lee
, Lindsey W. Vilca
, Marlon Elías Lobos-Rivera
, Angélica Nohemy Flores-Monterrosa
, Jennyfer Carolina Tejada Rodríguez
, Edgardo René Chacón-Andrade
, Wendy Carolina Marroquín-Carpio
, Carlos Carbajal-León
, Mario Reyes-Bossio
, Mariel Delgado-Campusano
, Julio Torales

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The objective of this study was to translate and psychometrically evaluate a Spanish version of the Grief Impairment Scale (GIS) using a sample of bereaved adults from El Salvador (N = 579). The results confirm the unidimensional structure of the GIS, and solid reliability, item characteristics, and criterion-related validity, where the GIS scale significantly and positively predicts depression. However, this instrument only showed evidence of configural and metric invariance between different sex groups. Overall, these results support the Spanish version of the GIS as a psychometrically sound screening tool for health professionals and researchers to use in their clinical work.

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	64-82
Number of pages	19
Journal	Omega: Journal of Death and Dying
Volume	92
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/00302228231175383
State	Indexed - Nov 2025
Externally published	Yes

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Keywords

El Salvador
bereavement
functional impairment
psychometrics
validity

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Caycho-Rodríguez, T., Lee, S. A., Vilca, L. W., Lobos-Rivera, M. E., Flores-Monterrosa, A. N., Tejada Rodríguez, J. C., Chacón-Andrade, E. R., Marroquín-Carpio, W. C., Carbajal-León, C., Reyes-Bossio, M., Delgado-Campusano, M., & Torales, J. (2025). A Psychometric Analysis of the Spanish Version of the Grief Impairment Scale: A Screening Tool of Biopsychosocial Grief-Related Functional Impairment in a Salvadoran Sample. Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 92(1), 64-82. https://doi.org/10.1177/00302228231175383

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A Psychometric Analysis of the Spanish Version of the Grief Impairment Scale: A Screening Tool of Biopsychosocial Grief-Related Functional Impairment in a Salvadoran Sample. / Caycho-Rodríguez, Tomás; Lee, Sherman A.; Vilca, Lindsey W. et al.
In: Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, Vol. 92, No. 1, 11.2025, p. 64-82.

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A Psychometric Analysis of the Spanish Version of the Grief Impairment Scale: A Screening Tool of Biopsychosocial Grief-Related Functional Impairment in a Salvadoran Sample

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