title: Inter-rater reliability of the Brazilian version of the Paykel scale of stressful life events.
abstract: The inter-rater reliability of the Brazilian version of the Recent Life Events Interview, developed by Paykel in order to evaluate stressful life events, was studied in 21 psychiatric inpatients and 20 psychiatric outpatients. Data concerning the agreement between the two raters showed a satisfactory reliability for specific occurrence of events, month of occurrence, independence of events and negative objective impact. This preliminary study suggests that the Brazilian version of the Recent Life Events Interview is a reliable instrument for the assessment of life events in Brazilian samples.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Psiquiatria, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. mgoliviera@uol.com.br
authors.forename: Maria das Graças
authors.initials: Md
authors.lastname: de Oliveira Md
authors.forename: Patrícia Pinto
authors.initials: PP
authors.lastname: Fonseca
authors.forename: José Alberto
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: del Porto
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015588:Observer Variation; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000208:ethnology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires