Validação semântica do ispcan-child abuse screening tools para o português brasileiro

• Autor(a) principal: Silveira, Ana Lígia da Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_RS
• Texto Completo: http://tede2.pucrs.br/tede2/handle/tede/6432
• topic: MEDICINA; PEDIATRIA; VIOLÊNCIA; MAUS-TRATOS INFANTIS; CRIANÇAS; ADOLESCENTES; EPIDEMIOLOGIA; SEMÂNTICA; CLINICA MEDICA::PEDIATRIA

Introduction: Child abuse is one of the main world problems according to the World Health Organization (WHO). However, epidemiological issues are an important challenge, particularly in Brazil. One difficulty is the scarcity of tools for tracking and identifying child abuse. The few instruments of investigation have methodological and conceptual limitations. One major limitation is the huge variability of concepts and ways of questioning children, adolescents and adults on exposure to abuse in different cultures. In this context, questionnaires are very useful in the investigation of child abuse. Thus, the main purpose of this dissertation is to perform the translation and semantic validation to Brazilian Portuguese of a battery of questionnaires designed by the WHO, the United Nations (UN) and the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN), called ICAST-ISPCAN Child Abuse Screening Tools. Besides, we present a brief narrative review of Brazilian studies containing epidemiological data on violence against children and adolescents. Methods: The narrative review was composed of articles published in the online databases Medline/Pubmed, LILIACS and Scielo. The search was based on a combination of the following descriptors: child, adolescent, violence, abuse, epidemiology, questionnaire, Brazil. There was no selection of filters. The 3.0 version of the ICAST battery is composed of three questionnaires: (1) Retrospective Interview (ICAST-R), (2) Child Abuse Screening Tool - Parent version (ICAST-P) and (3) Child Abuse Screening Tool – children’s version (ICAST-C). For the execution of the entire process of translation and semantic validation five methodological steps were conducted, as follows: (1) translation; (2) back translation; (3) correction and semantic adaptation; (4) content validation by experts in child abuse; and (5) acceptability study per sample of target population, through a verbal-numerical scale. Results: All steps have been satisfactorily completed. The acceptability study included five participants for each instrument: children, adults and parents of patients of one pediatric outpatient unit. In ICAST-C questionnaire, with 69 items, 3 children had some difficulty in understanding 7 questions. In ICAST-P, with 57 items, 2 parents had doubt about the clarity of 5 questions, although they had understood the meaning of the questions. In ICAST-R, with 33 items, there were no doubts about the questions. The doubts were related to problems with verb and subject agreement grammar rules, and the necessary adjustments have already been made. Conclusion: The ICAST battery is an internationally recognized tool, and its process of translation and semantic adaptation to Portuguese was effective. The three tools were easily understood by the sampled population. Semantic validation was adequate. The tools were found to be useful in the investigation of violence against children and adolescents.