Translation and adaptation of the Child Posttraumatic Cognitions Inventory (cPTCI) to Brazilian Portuguese

Abstract

Introduction: Experiencing a traumatic event is a risk factor for the development of mental illness, especially posttraumatic stress disorder. A child's appraisals of a traumatic event may play a prominent role in the development or maintenance of the disorder. Therefore, subjective responses should be evaluated to understand the impact of a traumatic event on a child's life. This study translated and adapted the Child Posttraumatic Cognitions Inventory (cPTCI) for use in linguistic and cultural contexts in Brazil. Methods: The process included translation, back-translation, language expert evaluation and expert committee's evaluation. Results: Content validity index scores were good for all dimensions after evaluation by two judges and one reformulation. The back-translation of the final version also showed that the cPTCI items in Brazilian Portuguese maintained the same meanings of the original in English. This version was tested in a sample of the target population, and all the items were above the cut-off point (minimum = 3.6; maximum = 4.0). Conclusions: This study was successful in producing a Brazilian version of the cPTCI. Further studies are underway to examine the reliability and the factorial and concurrent validity of cPTCI subscales.

Translation and cross-cultural adaptation of the International Trauma Questionnaire for use in Brazilian Portuguese

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Posttraumatic growth measures: translation and adaptation of three self-report instruments to Brazilian Portuguese

“…Satisfactory understanding was defined as a mean score ≥ 3, a cut-off point based on previous studies 29,30 . None of the items of any of the three scales needed to be modified at this stage because participants rated all the items as completely understandable.…”

Psychometric Properties of the Child Posttraumatic Cognitions Inventory in a Sample of Brazilian Children

“…The CPTCI is intended both to inform research on a potentially significant mechanism in the development of PTSD in children and adolescents and to provide a clinically useful tool for the assessment and prediction of the disorder (Meiser-Stedman, . The translation and cross-cultural adaptation of the CPTCI to Brazilian Portuguese was based on guidelines proposed by the International Test Commission (Beaton, Bombardier, Guillemin, & Ferraz, 2000;Gjersing, Caplehorn, & Clausen, 2010;Hernández-Nieto, 2002;International Test Commission, 2010) in a previous work (Lobo et al, 2014). The Brazilian Portuguese version of the CPTCI maintained the same meanings of the original English version and had evidence of an elevated content validity.…”