Prenatal Psychosocial Profile: translation, cross-cultural adaptation and validation to its use in Brazil

Objectives: to translate the Prenatal Psychosocial Profile (PPP) to be used in Brazil; to perform its crosscultural adaptation; and to evaluate its reliability and validity. Design: methodological study. Setting: the study was conducted in 10 prenatal care clinics at the city of Porto Alegre/Brazil. Participants: 241 women pregnant women. Methods: the adaptation process consisted in: translation; first version synthesis; expert committee evaluation; back translation; pre-test of the PPP version in Portuguese (PPP-VP); validation; the data with the participants was collected in 2007, by trained student nurses that approached the women while they were waiting for prenatal consultation. Findings: the mean scores for all subscales were similar to the ones found by the original authors; internal consistency was verified through Cronbach's alpha, with values of 0.71 for the stress subscale; 0.96 for support from the partner; 0.96 for support from others; and 0.79 for self-esteem; validity was supported through factorial analysis; construct and criterion validities were also established. Conclusion: PPP-VP should be used as a tool to obtain a psychosocial profile which can lead to nursing interventions that will reduce health risk behaviours during pregnancy. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.