Frontiers in Psychiatry (Jun 2021)

Validation of the Brazilian-Portuguese Version of the Clinician Administered Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Scale-5

  • Thauana Torres Oliveira-Watanabe,
  • Thauana Torres Oliveira-Watanabe,
  • Luis Francisco Ramos-Lima,
  • Cecilia Zylberstajn,
  • Cecilia Zylberstajn,
  • Vinicius Calsavara,
  • Bruno Messina Coimbra,
  • Bruno Messina Coimbra,
  • Mariana Rangel Maciel,
  • Mariana Rangel Maciel,
  • Lucia Helena Machado Freitas,
  • Lucia Helena Machado Freitas,
  • Marcelo Feijo Mello,
  • Marcelo Feijo Mello,
  • Andrea Feijo Mello,
  • Andrea Feijo Mello

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.614735
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12

Abstract

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Objectives: The aim of this study was to validate CAPS-5 for the Brazilian-Portuguese language on a sample of 128 individuals from two centers (from the cities of São Paulo and Porto Alegre) who have been recently exposed to a traumatic event.Methods: We performed a reliability analysis between interviewers (with a subset of 32 individuals), an internal consistency analysis, and a confirmatory factorial analysis for the validation study.Results: The inter-rater reliability of the total PTSD symptom severity score was high [intraclass correlation coefficient =0.994, 95% CI (0.987–0.997), p < 0.001]. Cohen's Kappa for individual items ranged between 0.759 and 1. Cronbach's alpha coefficients indicated high internal consistency for the CAPS-5 full scale (α = 0.826) and an acceptable level of internal consistency for the four symptom clusters. The confirmatory factorial analysis for the 20-item original CAPS-5 did not fit the data well. A 15-item model with better results was then established by excluding the following CAPS-5 items: dissociative amnesia, recklessness, distorted cognitions, irritability, and hypervigilance.Conclusion: Despite the limitation of the predominance of female victims, and the high number of sexually assaulted women in our sample, the model with only 15 items provided a good fit to the data with high internal consistency (α = 0.835).

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