Validation of the Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory for Children (SPAI-C) in a sample of Brazilian children
Braz. j. med. biol. res
; 38(5): 795-800, May 2005. tab, graf
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in English
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ABSTRACT
The purpose of the present study was to examine the factor structure and psychometric properties of the Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory for Children (SPAI-C), an instrument developed in the United States and applied to a sample of Brazilian schoolchildren. The process included the translation of the original material from English into Portuguese by two bilingual psychiatrists and a back translation by a bilingual physician. Both the front and back translations were revised by a bilingual child psychiatrist. The study was performed using a cross-sectional design and the Portuguese version of the SPAI-C was applied to a sample of 1954 children enrolled in 3rd to 8th grade attending 2 private and 11 public schools. Eighty-one subjects were excluded due to an incomplete questionnaire and 2 children refused to participate. The final sample consisted of 1871 children, 938 girls (50.1 percent) and 933 boys (49.8 percent), ranging in age from 9 to 14 years. The majority of the students were Caucasian (89.0 percent) and the remainder were African-Brazilian (11.0 percent). The Pearson product-moment correlation showed that the two-week test-retest reliability coefficient was r = 0.780 and Cronbach's alpha was 0.946. The factor structure was almost similar to that reported in previous studies. The results regarding the internal consistency, the test-retest reliability and the factor structure were similar to the findings obtained in studies performed on English speaking children. The present study showed that the Portuguese language version of SPAI-C is a reliable and valid measure of social anxiety for Brazilian children.
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Main subject:
Anxiety Disorders
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Phobic Disorders
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Surveys and Questionnaires
Type of study:
Observational study
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Prevalence study
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Risk factors
Limits:
Adolescent
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Child
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Country/Region as subject:
South America
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Brazil
Language:
English
Journal:
Braz. j. med. biol. res
Journal subject:
Biology
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Medicine
Year:
2005
Document type:
Article
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Congress and conference
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Project document
Affiliation country:
Brazil
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United States
Institution/Affiliation country:
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul/BR
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University of Maryland/US