Abstract

MARCONCIN, Priscila et al. Validation of the cognitive symptoms management/ communication with physicians scales to portuguese. Psic., Saúde & Doenças [online]. 2020, vol.21, n.3, pp.735-746.  Epub Dec 31, 2020. ISSN 1645-0086.  https://doi.org/10.15309/20psd210316.

Healh self-management is the ability to manage internal and external resources, knowledge and motivations related to a chronic clinical condition. The present study proposes the translation and cultural adaptation for the portuguese language, as well as the psychometric properties, of the Communication with Physicians (CwP) and Cognitive Symptoms Management (CSM) scales. After constituting the final version of the scales in the European Portuguese language and culturally adapted to the adult population with chronic disease, the scales were initially applied to a sample of 30 participants, in order to obtain the test-retest reliability, and later to a sample of 217 participants for evaluation of psychometric properties. Participants all had at least one chronic illness and were over 18 years old. The results showed adequate values for the test-retest reliability of 0.72 for the CwP scale and 0.84 for the CSM scale. After confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), acceptable adjustment indexes ranging from 0.37 to 0.87 were found. The composite reliability values were 0.75 for CwP and 0.73 for CSM. Contracts VEM was 0.75 for CwP and 0.32 for CSM. The CFI value was 0.84 and the GFI value was 0.90. The questionnaires were successfully translated and culturally adapted. The AFC values confirm the validity of the psychometric properties to be used in the portuguese population with chronic disease.

Keywords : Health Self-management; chronic diseases; validation of scales; cultural adaptation.

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