The family plays an essential role in the life of an adolescent. Hence, an acceptable understanding and an evaluation of family functioning is fundamental for effective interventions with adolescents in the psychological, social, and educational fields. The main purpose of this study is to examine the ps...
The Spanish version of the 5-item Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS-5) is a brief measure of the general tendency to be attentive and aware of experiences in the present moment during daily life. The MAAS-5 has been used in different countries; however, an assessment of its cross-cultural measureme...
Abstract Self-handicapping strategies refer to the set of choices and attitudes adopted to minimize blame for failure and increase the value of success in achievement situations. This paper aims to describe the stages of construction and the psychometric analysis of a scale to measure the self-handicappi...
ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To describe the process of cross-cultural adaptation for the use in Brazil of the everyday discrimination scale (EDS) and the heightened vigilance scale (HVS) applied in the Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil). METHODS Conceptual, item and semantic equivalence analyses...
El presente estudio instrumental evaluó las propiedades psicométricas del Inventario de Orientación Suicida – ISO-30 con 1922 adolescentes escolarizados de la ciudad de Bogotá.
La validez de constructo del inventario se estableció a través de un análisis factorial confirmatorio, utilizándose el...
A Lesão de Medula Espinhal (LME) é um trauma com efeitos devastadores na vida dos indivíduos. Estima-se que mais de 130.000 pessoas sejam afetadas por LME, a cada ano, em todo o mundo. Aproximadamente, 45% de todas as lesões são completas, deixando apenas uma pequena chance de recuperação funciona...
The Mood Disorders Questionnaire (MDQ) is a 3-item scale that is frequently used in bipolar disorders (BD) screening and questions the symptoms of BD, its effect on functionality, and the coexistence of symptoms. The aim of this study is to evaluate the prevalence of positive screening of the MDQ among g...
ABSTRACT Objective To create an instrument to assess smoking-related health literacy among smokers, and to estimate validity of its content and reliability. Methods A methodological, quantitative study. The creation of the instrument included the following steps: establishing a conceptual structure; ...
ABSTRACT Objective To describe of the translation from English to Portuguese and adaption process of subitems of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy - Multiple Myeloma. Methods In the first phase, translations from English into Portuguese of two subitems of Functional Assessment of Cancer The...
Objetivo: validar o Prisma-7 de forma concorrente com o Fenótipo de Fragilidade e o Indicador de Fragilidade de Groningen. Método: estudo de validade concorrente realizado na atenção primária à saúde com amostra de conveniência de 136 idosos. Instrumento incluiu variáveis sociodemográficas, fa...
