Confirmatory factor analysis of posttraumatic stress symptoms in Brazilian primary care patients: An examination of seven alternative models
| Autor: | Mariana Fernandes Costa, Ana Glória Godoi Vasconcelos, Mariana Pires da Luz, Mauro V. Mendlowicz, Ivan Figueira, Maria Luiza Garcia Rosa, William Berger |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Psychiatric Status Rating Scales medicine.medical_specialty Primary Health Care Psychometrics Primary care Models Psychological LISREL Confirmatory factor analysis Dsm iv tr Life Change Events Stress Disorders Post-Traumatic Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Posttraumatic stress Scale (social sciences) medicine Humans Female Universal validity Factor Analysis Statistical Psychology Psychiatry Brazil Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Anxiety Disorders. 25:950-963 |
| ISSN: | 0887-6185 |
| Popis: | The DSM-IV-TR postulates that PTSD symptoms are organized into 3 clusters. This assumption has been challenged by growing number of factor analytical studies, which tend to favor 4-factor, first-order models. Our objective was to investigate whether the clusters of PTSD symptoms identified in North American and European studies could be replicated in a Brazilian sample composed of 805 primary care patients living in hillside slums. Volunteers were asked to fill out the Brazilian version of the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist—Civilian Version and a confirmatory factor analysis of this scale was conducted with the software LISREL 8.80. Seven models were tested and a 4-factor, first-order solution including an emotional numbing cluster was found to provide the best fit. Although PTSD has been characterized by some critics as a Western culture-specific disorder lacking universal validity, our results seem to uphold the cross-cultural validity of the 4-factor, first-order model. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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