Transcultural adaptation of grid hamilton rating scale for depression (GRID-HAMD) to Brazilian portuguese and evaluation of the impact of training upon inter-rater reliability

• Autor(a) principal: Henrique-Araújo, Ricardo
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Osório, Flávia L., Ribeiro, Mônica Gonçalves, Monteiro, Ivandro Soares, Williams, Janet B. W., Kalali, Amir, Crippa, José Alexandre, Oliveira, Irismar Reis De
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/220414
• topic: Depression; GRID Hamilton rating scale for depression (GRID-HAMD); Reproducibility of results; Transcultural adaptation

GRID-HAMD is a semi-structured interview guide developed to overcome flaws in HAM-D, and has been incorporated into an increasing number of studies. Objectives: Carry out the transcultural adaptation of GRIDHAMD into the Brazilian Portuguese language, evaluate the inter-rater reliability of this instrument and the training impact upon this measure, and verify the raters’ opinions of said instrument. Methods: The transcultural adaptation was conducted by appropriate methodology. The measurement of inter-rater reliability was done by way of videos that were evaluated by 85 professionals beforeand after training for the use of this instrument. Results: The intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) remained between 0.76 and 0.90 for GRID-HAMD-21 and between 0.72 and 0.91 for GRIDHAMD- 17. The training did not have an impact on the ICC, except for a few groups of participants with a lower level of experience. Most of the participants showed high acceptance of GRID-HAMD, when compared to other versions of HAM-D. Conclusion: The scale presented adequate inter-rater reliability even before training began. Training did not have an impact on this measure, except for a few groups with less experience. GRID-HAMD received favorable opinions from most of the participants.