Validation of a Portuguese version of the Beck Depression Inventory and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory in Brazilian subjects.
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...The prevalence of depression appears to be independent of cultural background—Canada 8.2%; Europe 8.6%; United States 8.7%; southern Brazil 10% (Mari & Williams, 1986)— and is higher in urban populations, with a lifetime prevalence estimated to be 25.1% (18.5% formen and 31.5% for women; Patten, 2007)....
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...The Portuguese version was validated in Brazil (Gorenstein & Andrade, 1996)....
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...Chronotype was assessed with the Brazilian-Portuguese version of the Munich ChronoType Questionnaire (MCTQ) (http://www.bioinfo.mpg.de/wepcronotipo/)....
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...Participants were locals of 12 counties in the Taquari Valley (Brazil) of European descents (Germans and Italians) whose ancestors immigrated to this region between 1824 and 1870....
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...This work was supported by PROBRAL/CAPES/Brazil, PNPD/CAPES/Brazil, FIPE/HCPA/Brazil, Propesq/ UFRGS (M.P.H., R.M.L., and G.D.), Univates (undergraduate scholarships), DAAD/PROBRAL, Die Frauenbeauftragte der LMU and EUCLOCK (K.A., T.R.)....
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..., the BAI for anxiety (Beck et al., 1988; Gorenstein and Andrade, 1996) and ISSL for stress (Lipp, 2005)....
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...To validate the DASS, other previously validated instruments were included in the assessment: the BDI for depression (Beck et al., 1961; Gomes-Oliveira et al., 2012; Gorenstein and Andrade, 1996; Gorenstein et al., 1999;)...
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...Using different instruments and criteria for measuring anxiety symptoms, Rondo et al (2003), in a Brazilian cohort with 865 pregnant women from a public service, found prevalence of stress and distress varying from 22.1 to 52.9%....
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...It is possible that cultural and psychosocial aspects, such as religiosity (Brazil is a predominantly Catholic country) and other moral values, may play a role as stressors that are specific to each so- ciety or population investigated....
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...The cut-off point 15=16 was used, according to a previous validation in Brazil (Gorenstein & Andrade, 1996)....
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...AFC was funded by the CNPq-Brazil....
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...However, in Brazil, patients from pub- lic services may face several difficulties in gaining access to pre-natal care, including lack of available professionals, health care units far from women’s homes, less than sub-optimal number of appointments, shortage of blood and imaging exams and less support from the health care team, compared to women seen in private settings, which makes it difficult to generalize findings....
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