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Anne Marie Weissheimer1, Marli Villela Mamede2
1School of Nursing, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Rua São Manoel, 963 Room 217, Bairro Rio Branco, 90620-110 Porto Alegre/RS, Brazil.
Objectives:
To translate the Prenatal Psychosocial Profile (PPP) to be used in Brazil; to perform its cross-cultural adaptation; and to evaluate its reliability and validity.
Design:
Methodological study.
Setting:
The study was conducted in 10 prenatal care clinics at the city of Porto Alegre/Brazil.
Participants:
241 women pregnant women.
Methods:
The adaptation process consisted in: translation; first version synthesis; expert committee evaluation; back translation; pre-test of the PPP version in Portuguese (PPP-VP); validation; the data with the participants was collected in 2007, by trained student nurses that approached the women while they were waiting for prenatal consultation.
Findings:
The mean scores for all subscales were similar to the ones found by the original authors; internal consistency was verified through Cronbach׳s alpha, with values of 0.71 for the stress subscale; 0.96 for support from the partner; 0.96 for support from others; and 0.79 for self-esteem; validity was supported through factorial analysis; construct and criterion validities were also established.
Conclusion:
PPP-VP should be used as a tool to obtain a psychosocial profile which can lead to nursing interventions that will reduce health risk behaviours during pregnancy.
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