Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Unit. Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Ocidental. Lisbon. Faculty of Health Sciences. Universidade da Beira Interior. Covilhã. Portugal.
Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health. Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Ocidental. Lisbon. NOVA Medical School - Faculdade de Ciências Médicas Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Lisbon. Portugal.
Acta Med Port. 2022 Sep 1;35(9):652-662. doi: 10.20344/amp.16718. Epub 2022 Apr 11.
The aim of this study was to translate and validate into European Portuguese the CAPS-CA-5 (Clinician Administered PTSD Scale for Children and Adolescents), a semi-structured scale for the diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder in children and adolescents, according to the DSM-5 criteria.
This study was developed in three stages. In the first stage, the translation and back-translation of CAPS-CA-5 into European Portuguese was carried out. In the second stage, the version obtained in the previous step was subjected to a pre-test. In the third stage, the final version of CAPS-CA-5, the KIDCOPE questionnaires and the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale-Children were applied to 101 children who had experienced at least one potentially traumatic event. The children included in this study were between seven and 18 years old and had a follow-up period in a Child Psychiatry or Pediatrics Clinic in one of the three hospitals involved in this project of at least one month.
Regarding the confirmatory factor analysis, our results show that the CAPS-CA-5 is a suitable psychometric instrument to assess the diagnosis and symptoms severity of post-traumatic stress disorder according to DSM-5. Convergent validity was comparable to its original version. Although there were negative relationships with almost all of its clusters, these were not statistically significant when applied with the positive coping strategies of the KIDCOPE. The European Portuguese version of the CAPS-CA-5 showed a good internal consistency (Cronbach's α for the total scale was 0.89).
The European Portuguese version of CAPS-CA-5 has similar psychometric properties to its original version.
本研究旨在根据 DSM-5 标准，将儿童和青少年创伤后应激障碍诊断用半结构式量表 CAPS-CA-5（儿童和青少年临床医生管理 PTSD 量表）翻译并验证为欧洲葡萄牙语版本。
本研究分三个阶段进行。第一阶段，对 CAPS-CA-5 进行翻译和回译。第二阶段，对上一步获得的版本进行预测试。第三阶段，对最终版本的 CAPS-CA-5、KIDCOPE 问卷和儿童抑郁、焦虑和压力量表-儿童进行应用，共纳入 101 名至少经历过一次潜在创伤性事件的儿童。本研究纳入的儿童年龄在 7 至 18 岁之间，在参与该项目的三家医院之一的儿童精神病学或儿科学诊所中进行了至少一个月的随访。
在验证性因子分析方面，我们的结果表明，CAPS-CA-5 是一种适合评估根据 DSM-5 诊断和创伤后应激障碍症状严重程度的心理计量学工具。与原始版本相比，其具有相似的收敛效度。虽然与 KIDCOPE 的几乎所有正性应对策略均呈负相关，但无统计学意义。CAPS-CA-5 的欧洲葡萄牙语版本具有良好的内部一致性（总量表的 Cronbach's α 为 0.89）。
CAPS-CA-5 的欧洲葡萄牙语版本与原始版本具有相似的心理计量学特性。
