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Abstract Objective The Fibromyalgia Rapid Screening Tool (FiRST) was developed to screen people with chronic pain for Fibromyalgia (FM), especially in primary health care settings. This study aimed to translate the FiRST into Brazilian Portuguese and evaluate its measurement properties for an online application. Methods After the process of translation and backtranslation, the FiRST was applied online in 483 adults with chronic pain (FM group n = 395; Chronic pain group n = 88), along with the Numerical Rating Scale for pain and fatigue, the Brief Pain Inventory, and the Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire-Revised. A Receiver Operating Characteristics (ROC) curve was computed and the area under the curve (AUC) was used to determine the sensibility, specificity, and cutoff score for the FiRST. The Mann-Whitney test was used for quantitative variables and the Chi-square and the Fisher's exact test, for the categorical variables with level of significance of 5%. Fleiss' Kappa, Gwet's AC1 and percentage of agreement were also calculated between test and retest. Results For all the questionnaires, the FM group presented higher scores, which mean a worst condition. The FiRST presented a sensitivity of 92.3%, and a specificity of 61.6% with 5 as the cut-off score. AUC, Fleiss' Kappa, Gwet's AC1 and percentage of agreement were, respectively, 0.82, 0.38, 0.63 and 71.8%. Conclusion The FiRST was translated into Brazilian Portuguese and the online version presented a good content validity and adequate measurement errors that allow FM patients to be screened among people with chronic pain.
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INTRODUÇÃO: O internato médico compreende o período do curso de graduação em Medicina em que o educando recebe preparação para a prática médica. A avaliação contribui para a aquisição da competência clínica e, consequentemente, prepara o educando para a prática médica. OBJETIVOS: Estudar os métodos de avaliação discente no internato em Clínica Médica do curso de graduação em Medicina da Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina (Unisul), campus Tubarão, por meio da análise da percepção de discentes e docentes envolvidos neste estágio do curso. MÉTODOS: Participaram da pesquisa 44 internos e 15 docentes do semestre letivo 2009/2. RESULTADOS: Os sujeitos da pesquisa percebem a existência e a necessidade de avaliação no internato, têm conhecimento das estratégias e itens utilizados no processo avaliativo e entendem que nesse processo são empregados métodos com medidas objetivas e subjetivas, com abordagens qualitativas e quantitativas. CONCLUSÕES: Sugere-se maior ênfase em conteúdo prático e capacitação docente, aliadas a uma lista de verificação ao final do estágio.
INTRODUCTION: Medical internship consists ofthe period of aundergraduate medicine course in which the student is prepared for medical practice. The assessment contributes toward clinical competency and, consequently, prepares the student for medical practice. OBJECTIVES: To study the assessment methods of medical interns from the undergraduate medicine course ofthe Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina (UNISUL), through analysis of the perceptions of medical students and teachers involved. METHODS:The study involved 44 medical students and 15 teachers from the second school semester of 2009. Results: The research subjects perceive the existence and need for evaluation in the medical clinical internship period, possess knowledge of the strategies and items used in the assessment process and understand that this process uses methods with objective and subjective measures, qualitative and quantitative approaches. CONCLUSIONS: Greater emphasis on practical content and teacher training is suggested, as well asa final internship check-list.