PATIENT ACTIVATION MEASURE (PAM): ADAPTAÇÃO E VALIDAÇÃO DAS VERSÕES DE 22 E DE 13 ITENS EM UMA
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Cunha, Cristiane MartinsPatient Activation Measure (PAM): Adaptação e validação das versões de 22 e de 13 itens em uma amostra de brasileiros com doenças crônicas. The active participation in the individual health self-management has been associated with positive outcomes as for the individual as for the health institutions. The Patient Activation Measure (PAM) instrument has been used for measuring the activation, a construct which includes the knowledge, skills and confidence of the individual to actively accomplish healthy behaviors. This methodological study aimed adapting culturally the PAM13 and PAM22 versions and evaluating the psychometric properties of the adapted versions in a sample of subjects with chronic diseases. The cultural adaptation process occurred according to literature recommendations: translation, back translation and conciliation of translated versions, an evaluation by a committee of judges, a semantics evaluation of the items, the obtainment of the adapted versions of the PAM and psychometric assessment. The data were collected between June and December of 2014, in the Central Ambulatory of Hospital de Clínicas of the Federal University of Uberlândia. The study included 513 subjects of both genders, with a diagnosis of chronic diseases for at least six months, with ages between 18 and 80 years old and that had regular medical monitoring in the ambulatory. The PAM is answered in an ordinal scale with five points, ranging from disagree strongly (1 point) to agree strongly (4 points) and the option does not apply (0 points).The possible range in the PAM22 is 22 to 88 points and of PAM13 is 13 to 52 points. The values obtained raw score must be converted to an activation score, ranging from 0 to 100 points. High scores indicate greater activation. The construct validity of the PAM was evaluated by the correlations between by activation measures and self-esteem (Rosenberg SelfEsteem Scale), anxiety and depression (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale) and perceived health status (Analogical Visual Scale); by the known groups techniques (sex, age, income, education, time of diagnosis and number of comorbidities) and its dimensionality, by the confirmatory factorial analysis variation which uses the paths analysis, called Structural Modeling Equations (SEM). The reliability was assessed through the internal consistency and through the test-retest reliability, in a time of 15 day interval. The significance level adopted was of 0.05. The majority of the subjects were female (62.0%), the age average was 49.8 years old (DP=14.57; variation 18-80 years). The study average was eight years (DP=4; variation 0-20 years). The participants presented diverse chronic diseases and 75% had been ...