Cross-cultural adaptation of The Postpartum Childcare Stress Checklist into Brazilian Portuguese

Abstract

Objectives:

to carry out the cross-cultural adaptation of The Postpartum Childcare Stress Checklist scale to be used in Brazil.

Methods:

the cross-cultural adaptation process followed internationally defined guidelines: double translation, synthesis and back-translation, analysis by a committee of experts, proposal for a pre-final and pre-test version, analysis of the psychometrics properties and generation of the final version. The reliability and validity of the final version were analyzed through a cross-sectional epidemiological study involving 190 women in the postpartum period. Cronbach’s α indicator for reliability analysis and exploratory factor analysis with main component extraction were estimated for validity analysis.

Results:

α-Cronbach’s was 0.894. The tested Brazilian version proved to be one-dimensional and the factor analysis pointed to four factors that were very closely distributed and explained 57.8% of the variance. All items of the original instrument were maintained in the proposed final version.

Conclusions:

the proposed Brazilian version proved to be valid and reliable for application in Brazilian populations.

Key words:
Maternal and child health; Depression postpartum; Scales; Questionnaires