Validation of the Brazilian-Portuguese version of the Clinician Administered Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Scale-5

• Autor(a) principal: Watanabe, Thauana Torres Oliveira
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Lima, Luís Francisco Ramos, Zylberstajn, Cecilia, Calsavara, Vinicius, Coimbra, Bruno Messina, Maciel, Mariana Rangel, Freitas, Lucia Helena Machado, Mello, Marcelo Feijo de, Mello, Andrea de Abreu Feijó de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFRGS
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10183/230759
• topic: Psicometria; Estudo de validação; Transtornos de estresse pós-traumáticos; Inquéritos e questionários; Brasil; Post-traumatic stress disorder; Assessment; Instrument validation; Clinician-administered PTSD scale; Psychometric evaluation validity/reliability

Objectives: The aim of this study was to validate CAPS-5 for the Brazilian-Portuguese language on a sample of 128 individuals from two centers (from the cities of São Paulo and Porto Alegre) who have been recently exposed to a traumatic event. Methods: We performed a reliability analysis between interviewers (with a subset of 32 individuals), an internal consistency analysis, and a confirmatory factorial analysis for the validation study. Results: The inter-rater reliability of the total PTSD symptom severity score was high [intraclass correlation coefficient =0.994, 95% CI (0.987–0.997), p < 0.001]. Cohen’s Kappa for individual items ranged between 0.759 and 1. Cronbach’s alpha coefficients indicated high internal consistency for the CAPS-5 full scale (α = 0.826) and an acceptable level of internal consistency for the four symptom clusters. The confirmatory factorial analysis for the 20-item original CAPS-5 did not fit the data well. A 15-item model with better results was then established by excluding the following CAPS-5 items: dissociative amnesia, recklessness, distorted cognitions, irritability, and hypervigilance. Conclusion: Despite the limitation of the predominance of female victims, and the high number of sexually assaulted women in our sample, the model with only 15 items provided a good fit to the data with high internal consistency (α = 0.835).