Versão resumida da job stress scale: adaptação para o português / Short version of the job stress scale: a Portuguese language adaptation

OBJETIVO: Descrever o processo de adaptação, para o português, da versão resumida da job stress scale, originalmente elaborada em inglês. MÉTODOS: Foram avaliados seis aspectos de equivalência entre a escala original e a versão para o português: as equivalências conceitual, semântica, operacional, de itens, de medidas e funcional. Tomou-se por base um estudo de confiabilidade teste-reteste com 94 indivíduos selecionados. RESULTADOS: O estudo de confiabilidade teste-reteste entre 94 indivíduos permitiu estimativas de reprodutibilidade (coeficientes de correlação intraclasse) para as dimensões de demanda, controle e apoio social da escala de 0,88, 0,87 e 0,85, respectivamente. Para as mesmas dimensões, as estimativas de consistência interna (alpha de Cronbach) foram, respectivamente, 0,79, 0,67 e 0,85. CONCLUSÕES: Os resultados sugerem que o processo de adaptação da escala foi bem sucedido, indicando que seu uso no contexto sociocultural da população de estudo (Estudo Pró-Saúde) é apropriado.

Confiabilidade da história referida de diagnóstico e tratamento de hipertensäo arterial. Diferenciais segundo gênero, idade e escolaridade. O estudo pró-saúde / Reliability of the information about the history of diagnosis and treatment of hypertension. Differences in regard to sex, age, and educational level. The pró-saúde study

OBJECTIVE: To assess the intraobserver reliability of the information about the history of diagnosis and treatment of hypertension. METHODS: A multidimensional health questionnaire, which was filled out by the interviewees, was applied twice with an interval of 2 weeks, in July '99, to 192 employees of the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), stratified by sex, age, and educational level. The intraobserver reliability of the answers provided was estimated by the kappa statistic and by the coefficient of intraclass correlation (CICC). RESULTS: The general kappa (k) statistic was 0.75 (95 per cent CI=0.73-0.77). Reliability was higher among females (k=0.88, 95 per cent CI=0.85-0.91) than among males (k=0.62, 95 per cent CI=0.59-0.65).The reliability was higher among individuals 40 years of age or older (k=0.79; 95 per cent CI=0.73-0.84) than those from 18 to 39 years (k=0.52; 95 per cent CI=0.45-0.57). Finally, the kappa statistic was higher among individuals with a university educational level (k=0.86; 95 per cent CI=0.81-0.91) than among those with high school educational level (k=0.61; 95 per cent CI=0.53-0.70) or those with middle school educational level (k=0.68; 95 per cent CI=0.64-0.72). The coefficient of intraclass correlation estimated by the intraobserver agreement in regard to age at the time of the diagnosis of hypertension was 0.74. A perfect agreement between the 2 answers (k=1.00) was observed for 22 interviewees who reported prior prescription of antihypertensive medication. CONCLUSION: In the population studied, estimates of the reliability of the history of medical diagnosis of hypertension and its treatment ranged from substantial to almost perfect reliability.