ADAPTAÇÃO DA ESCALA AUSTRALIANA CHILDHOOD CONCERNS SURVEY (CCS) NUM CONTEXTO BRASILEIRO

by da Silva, Wildson Vieira

Objective: To translate and to adapt the ?Childhood Concerns Survey? (CCS), an Australianscale that evaluates anxiety disorders among preschoolers based on their parent?s answers,with the intention of using it in the Brazilian children.Method: Two bilingual professionals translated two Portuguese versions of the scale, whichwere retro-translated by other tree bilingual professionals. The differences were harmonizedand pre-tested in a pilot study. The final Portuguese version was applied by 420 parents ofboys and girls between 2,5 to 6 years old from Pelotas. The CCS?s psychometrical propertieswere tested. The Contend Validity was verified by the Theoretical Items Analysis and theItems Analysis by the Classic Tests Theory. For the extern criterion validity the ANOVA wasutilized, considering age and sex. The Construct Validation study was made by theExploratory Factor Analysis and Cronbach?s alpha coefficient was used as reliability.Results: The Exploratory Factor Analysis indicated the presence of 4 factors reflectingObsessive Compulsive Disorder, Fear of physical injury and Social Phobia and GeneralizedAnxiety Disorder. The ANOVA method revealed relevant differences p<0,05 between genderand age, demonstrating that girls had higher scores than boys.Conclusion: It was found necessary to reformulate the written composition of some items.The final version of the proposed scale to evaluate 4 anxiety disorders has 26 items andpresents acceptable psychometric characteristics