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Developing countries face challenges with adherence to health practices, leading to high child mortality. This study adapted psychological measures for stress, temporal discounting, self-efficacy, and executive control in Kenya, finding low reliability and poor correlations between scales and tasks.

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  • Global Health
  • Behavioral Science

Background:

  • Low adherence to medical regimens in developing countries contributes to high infant and child mortality.
  • Stress may impact adherence through temporal discounting, self-efficacy, and executive control.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To adapt and evaluate psychological scales and behavioral tasks for measuring stress, temporal discounting, self-efficacy, and executive control in adults in Kenya.
  • To assess the psychometric properties of these adapted measures for cross-cultural application.

Main Methods:

  • Psychological scales and behavioral tasks were translated into Kiswahili and cognitively interviewed for cultural acceptability.
  • Existing behavioral tasks were refined, and new ones were developed.
  • 511 adults in Kenya completed adapted psychological inventories and behavioral tasks in a laboratory setting.

Main Results:

  • The adapted measures exhibited relatively low reliability.
  • Poor correlational evidence was found between psychological scales and behavioral tasks designed to measure the same construct.
  • Challenges in cross-cultural adaptation of psychological measures were highlighted.

Conclusions:

  • Adapting psychological measures across cultures presents significant challenges.
  • Assays within the same psychological domain may capture distinct underlying processes, impacting reliability and validity.
  • Further research is needed to refine and validate measures for use in diverse cultural contexts.