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ArticleJournal of community psychology2026

Assessment of Measurement Equivalence of the Communities That Care Brief Depression Scale by Immigrant Generation Status in Latinx Youth.

Miranda L M Delawalla, Isaac C Rhew, Griselda Martinez, Martie Skinner, Sabrina Oesterle, Katarina Guttmannova

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Article in Journal of community psychology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Miranda L M DelawallaDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Center for the Study of Health and Risk Behaviors, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6906-2707
Isaac C RhewDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Center for the Study of Health and Risk Behaviors, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9731-8776
Griselda MartinezDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Center for the Study of Health and Risk Behaviors, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3455-4314
Martie SkinnerSocial Development Research Group, University of Washington, School of Social Work, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5706-429X
Sabrina OesterleSouthwest Interdisciplinary Research Center, Arizona State University, School of Social Work, Tempe, AZ, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2898-6145
Katarina GuttmannovaDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Center for the Study of Health and Risk Behaviors, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7550-3329

Funding

The Community Youth Development Study: A Test of Communities That CareR01DA015183 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI HAWKINS, J DAVID, OESTERLE, SABRINA · 2003 to 2016
$34.0M
Psychology Training in Alcohol Research (PTAR)T32AA007455 · NIAAA · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI MARY E. LARIMER · 1985 to 2026
$11.4M
The interplay of social, normative, and legal marijuana environments and marijuana and ATOD use from late childhood to young adulthoodR01DA044522 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI KUKLINSKI, MARGARET, OESTERLE, SABRINA · 2018 to 2022
$4.3M
Promoting health by understanding the dynamic interplay between internalizing symptoms and substance use among Latinx youth in rural and small-town communities in the United StatesR01DA048827 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI GUTTMANNOVA, KATARINA · 2020 to 2023
$1.3M
NIAAA NIH HHS T32 AA007455NIAAA NIH HHS T32AA007455NIDA NIH HHS 3R01DA048827-03S1NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA015183NIDA NIH HHS R01DA015183NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA044522NIDA NIH HHS R01DA0445522NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA048827NIDA NIH HHS R01DA048827
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We assessed the Communities That Care Brief Depression Scale (CTC-BDS) for measurement equivalence for Latinx and white youth by immigrant generation status. The sample consisted of 1779 youth (17.8% Latinx children of immigrants [COI], 9.3% Latinx children of non-immigrants [CONI], 72.8% non-Latinx white CONI) surveyed in sixth, eighth, tenth, and twelfth grades. We used one-factor confirmatory factor analysis to examine equivalent assessment across groups at each grade and across all grades, testing configural, metric, and scalar equivalence. Individual and incremental model fit statistics were examined. We found evidence for both the one-factor structure and for measurement equivalence of the CTC-BDS across ethnicity and immigrant generation status, as well as grades over the course of adolescence. The CTC-BDS is an appropriate measure in community monitoring and research to compare depressive symptoms in Latinx youth of varying immigrant generation statuses and white youth.

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DepressionEmigrants and ImmigrantsHispanic or LatinoAdolescentChildFactor Analysis, StatisticalFemaleHumansMalePsychiatric Status Rating ScalesPsychometricsWhiteadolescentdepressionHispanic or Latinopsychometricspublic healthrural healthsurveys and questionnaires

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PMID41838611
PMCPMC12991181

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