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Cross-cultural adaptation of the Maltreatment and Abuse Chronology of Exposure (MACE) scale to Brazilian Portuguese

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Title
Cross-cultural adaptation of the Maltreatment and Abuse Chronology of Exposure (MACE) scale to Brazilian Portuguese
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Trends in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, March 2016
DOI 10.1590/2237-6089-2015-0051
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Bruno Kluwe-Schiavon, Thiago Wendt Viola, Rodrigo Grassi-Oliveira

Abstract

There is strong evidence to indicate that childhood maltreatment can negatively affect both physical and mental health and there is increasing interest in understanding the occurrence and consequences of such experiences. While several tools have been developed to retrospectively investigate childhood maltreatment experiences, most of them do not investigate the experience of witnessing family violence during childhood or bullying exposure. Moreover, the majority of scales do not identify when these experiences may have occurred, who was involved or the feelings evoked, such as helplessness or terror. The Maltreatment and Abuse Chronology of Exposure (MACE) scale was developed to overcome these limitations. In view of the improvements over previous self-report instruments that this new tool offers and of the small number of self-report questionnaires for childhood maltreatment assessment available in Brazil, this study was conducted to conduct cross-cultural adaptation of the MACE scale for Brazilian Portuguese. The following steps were performed: translation, back-translation, committee review for semantic and conceptual evaluation, and acceptability trial for equivalence. Semantic and structural changes were made to the interview to adapt it for the Brazilian culture and all 75 of the items that comprise the longer version of MACE were translated. The results of the acceptability trial suggest that the items are comprehensible. The MACE scales may be useful tools for investigation of childhood maltreatment and make a valuable contribution to research in Brazil. Future studies should consider testing the availability and reliability of the three versions of the instrument translated into Brazilian Portuguese.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Professor > Associate Professor 3 13%
Student > Master 2 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 4%
Lecturer 1 4%
Student > Bachelor 1 4%
Other 1 4%
Unknown 15 63%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 6 25%
Social Sciences 2 8%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 4%
Unknown 15 63%
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