Browsing by Subject "validation"

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    • Adaptação transcultural para o português da escala Adult Self-Report Scale para avaliação do transtorno de déficit de atenção/hiperatividade (TDAH) em adultos 

      Mattos, Paulo; Segenreich, Daniel; Saboya, Eloísa; Louzã, Mário; Dias, Gabriela; Romano, Marcos [UNIFESP] (Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, 2006-01-01)
      The criteria listed in the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV) from the American Psychiatric Association are the most used ones for the diagnosis of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder ...

    • Brazilian cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the List of Threatening Events Questionnaire (LTE-Q) 

      de Abreu, Patricia B. [UNIFESP]; Cogo-Moreira, Hugo[UNIFESP]; Pose, Regina A.; Laranjeira, Ronaldo [UNIFESP]; Caetano, Raul [UNIFESP]; Gaya, Carolina M. [UNIFESP]; Madruga, Clarice S. [UNIFESP] (Assoc Brasileira Psiquiatria, 2017)
      Objective: To perform a construct validation of the List of Threatening Events Questionnaire (LTE-Q), as well as convergence validation by identifying its association with drug use in a sample of the Brazilian population. ...

    • Brazilian version of airways questionnaire 20: a reproducibility study and correlations in patients with COPD 

      Camelier, Aquiles Assunção [UNIFESP]; Rosa, Fernanda Warken [UNIFESP]; Jones, Paul Wyatt; Jardim, José Roberto [UNIFESP] (W B Saunders Co Ltd, 2005-05-01)
      This study describes the correlations and reproducibility of AQ20, a simple health status questionnaire with 20 questions, which was designed to be useful especially in time sparing situations. A format language validation ...

    • Cocaine craving questionnaire: Assessing craving among cocaine users in Brazil 

      Silveira, D. X. da; Fernandes, M.; Silveira, E. D.; Jorge, M. R. (Elsevier B.V., 2006-06-15)
      The Cocaine Craving Questionnaire was administered to 205 cocaine addicts. A 6/5 cut-off corresponded to the scale's best performance. Reliability was 0.803. Receiver Operating Characteristic analysis resulted in an area ...

    • Cross-cultural validation of the Chalder Fatigue Questionnaire in Brazilian primary care 

      Cho, Hyong Jin; Costa, Erico; Menezes, Paulo Rossi; Chalder, Trudie; Bhugra, Dinesh; Wessely, Simon (Elsevier B.V., 2007-03-01)
      Objective: the Chalder Fatigue Questionnaire (CFQ) is an instrument used to measure physical and mental fatigue. We translated and adapted the questionnaire and tested its reliability and validity in a Brazilian primary ...

    • EACOL (Scale of Evaluation of Reading Competence by the Teacher): evidence of concurrent and discriminant validity 

      Cogo-Moreira, Hugo [UNIFESP]; Ploubidis, George B.; Avila, Clara Regina Brandao de [UNIFESP]; Mari, Jair de Jesus [UNIFESP]; Pinheiro, Angela Maria Vieira (Dove Medical Press Ltd, 2012-01-01)
      Aim: the study aimed to provide information about the concurrent and discriminant validation of the Scale of Evaluation of Reading Competence by the Teacher (EACOL), which is composed of 27 dichotomous items concerning ...

    • Evaluation of the anxiolytic-like effects of Cecropia glazioui Sneth in mice 

      Rocha, F. F.; Lapa, A. J.; De Lima, TCM (Elsevier B.V., 2002-01-01)
      Cecropia glazioui Sneth has been used in most Latin American countries as an antihypertensive, cardiotonic, and antiasthmatic folk medicine. in the cardiovascular studies to define its antihypertensive action it was ...

    • Further validation of actigraphy for sleep studies 

      Souza, Luciane de [UNIFESP]; Benedito-Silva, Ana Amélia [UNIFESP]; Pires, Maria Laura Nogueira [UNIFESP]; Poyares, Dalva [UNIFESP]; Tufik, Sergio [UNIFESP]; Calil, Helena Maria [UNIFESP] (Amer Acad Sleep Medicine, 2003-02-01)
      Study Objectives: Actigraphy is generally compared to polysomnography (PSG), which has been considered the gold standard for sleep studies. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the concordance between PSG and ...

    • Hallucinogen Rating Scale (HRS) - Versão brasileira: tradução e adaptação transcultural 

      Mizumoto, Suely [UNIFESP]; Silveira, Dartiu Xavier da [UNIFESP]; Barbosa, Paulo César Ribeiro; Strassman, Rick J. (Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, 2011-01-01)
      BACKGROUND: There is a growing scientific interest in the effects of hallucinogens in general and the religious use of psychoactive brew ayahuasca in Brazil in particular. However, there is not yet a standard instrument ...

    • Health status in rheumatoid arthritis: Cross cultural evaluation of a Portuguese version of the Arthritis Impact Measurement Scales 2 (BRASIL-AIMS2) 

      Brandao, L.; Ferraz, M. B.; Zerbini, C. A. (J Rheumatol Publ Co, 1998-08-01)
      Objective. To develop a Portuguese version of the Arthritis Impact Measurement Scales 2 (AIMS2) and to evaluate its measurement properties in Brazilian patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA).Methods. The BRASIL-AIMS2 was ...