Cross-cultural adaptation of the PHQ-4 to European Portuguese and its validation with the psychological burden by the multimorbidity management in GP/FM practice in Central Portugal

Autor: Luiz Miguel Santiago, Marta Rodrigues
Jazyk: English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />Portuguese
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Revista Portuguesa de Medicina Geral e Familiar, Vol 40, Iss 2 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2182-5181
DOI: 10.32385/rpmgf.v40i2.13655
Popis: Background: Mental health is an important issue in general practice/family medicine. The Patient Health Questionnaire for Depression and Anxiety (PHQ-4) allows depression and anxiety screening and psychologic distress evaluation. PHQ-4 cross-cultural adaptation and concurrent validation was the objective of this paper in a population of general practice/family medicine (GP/FM) doctors. Methods: Translation, linguistic verification and back-translation, internal consistency, and reliability of the final translated tool were performed for the cultural adaptation of the PHQ-4 scale. The European Quality of Life 5 Dimensions 3L (EQ-5D-3L) scale and the “Sentimentos Negativos – Negative Feelings”, subscale of the “Questionário da Avaliação da Sobrecarga da Gestão da Multimorbilidade em Medicina Geral e Familiar – Questionnaire of Evaluation of Burden of Management of Multimorbidity in General Practice and Family Medicine” [SoGeMM-MGF]) were used for concurrent validation. Descriptive, inferential, and correlational statistics were used, according to the distribution of data, with a p-value of
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