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Avaliação das preocupações sentidas durante a gravidez: Estudos psicométricos da versão portuguesa da Cambridge Worry Scale (CWS)
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A Cambridge Worry Scale (CWS) constitui um instrumento multidimensional desenvolvido para
avaliar o conteúdo e a intensidade das preocupações sentidas durante a gravidez, concetualizadas
como normativas. O presente trabalho pretendeu avaliar o comportamento psicométrico da versão
portuguesa da CWS, procedendo ao estudo da sua estrutura fatorial, validade e fidelidade. Uma
amostra de 430 grávidas, maioritariamente na primeira metade da gestação, respondeu a uma bateria
de questionários composta por três instrumentos de autorresposta (CWS, Brief Symptom Inventory e
Antenatal Emotional Attachment Scale). Através de análises fatoriais confirmatórias, testaram-se
diversos modelos apresentados na literatura. O mais adequado engloba 13 itens e uma estrutura de
cinco fatores: Área Sociomédica (preocupação com procedimentos médicos e com o parto, bem como
com a interação com o bebé após o nascimento), Relações (com o companheiro e com familiares e
amigos íntimos), Perda Reprodutiva (preocupação com a possibilidade de aborto espontâneo e com a
identificação de um problema médico no bebé), Saúde (da própria e de outras pessoas significativas)
e Área Socioeconómica (englobando os âmbitos financeiro, profissional e habitacional). A CWS
apresentou valores adequados de consistência interna e bons níveis de validade (de construto,
convergente, discriminante e de critério com base na diferenciação de grupos). Assim, constitui um
instrumento passível de ser utilizado em contexto clínico e de investigação.
The Cambridge Worry Scale (CWS) is a multidimensional questionnaire which was developed to assess both the type and the intensity of women’s worries during pregnancy, which are considered to be normative. In the present study, we conducted the psychometric studies of the Portuguese version of the CWS, focusing on its factorial structure, validity, and reliability. A sample of 430 pregnant women, mainly in the first half of the pregnancy, answered the assessment protocol, which included three self-report questionnaires (CWS, Brief Symptom Inventory 18, and Antenatal Emotional Attachment Scale). Confirmatory factor analyses were run in order to test several models presented in previous studies. Fit indexes showed the most adequate to be a 13-item model with five factors: Sociomedical (worries about the medical dimension of pregnancy – medical examinations, the birth – and with the interaction with the baby, after the birth), Relationships (with the partner, as well as with close relatives and friends), Reproductive Loss (the possibility of miscarriage or of something being wrong with the baby), Health (own and significant others’ health), and Socioeconomic (finances, work, and housing). The CWS was shown to have a good internal consistency and good validity (construct, convergent, discriminant, and criterion based on group differentiation). Considering this, CWS is useful in clinical and in research contexts.
The Cambridge Worry Scale (CWS) is a multidimensional questionnaire which was developed to assess both the type and the intensity of women’s worries during pregnancy, which are considered to be normative. In the present study, we conducted the psychometric studies of the Portuguese version of the CWS, focusing on its factorial structure, validity, and reliability. A sample of 430 pregnant women, mainly in the first half of the pregnancy, answered the assessment protocol, which included three self-report questionnaires (CWS, Brief Symptom Inventory 18, and Antenatal Emotional Attachment Scale). Confirmatory factor analyses were run in order to test several models presented in previous studies. Fit indexes showed the most adequate to be a 13-item model with five factors: Sociomedical (worries about the medical dimension of pregnancy – medical examinations, the birth – and with the interaction with the baby, after the birth), Relationships (with the partner, as well as with close relatives and friends), Reproductive Loss (the possibility of miscarriage or of something being wrong with the baby), Health (own and significant others’ health), and Socioeconomic (finances, work, and housing). The CWS was shown to have a good internal consistency and good validity (construct, convergent, discriminant, and criterion based on group differentiation). Considering this, CWS is useful in clinical and in research contexts.
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Keywords
Cambridge Worry Scale Caraterísticas psicométricas Gravidez Preocupação Cambridge Worry Scale Pregnancy Psychometric properties Worry
Citation
Análise Psicológica, 10(1), 81-95
Publisher
ISPA - Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada