Inter-rater reliability of the Brazilian version of the Paykel scale of stressful life events.
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.
de Oliveira Md
Maria das Graças
Md
Departamento de Psiquiatria, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. mgoliviera@uol.com.br
Fonseca
Patrícia Pinto
PP
del Porto
José Alberto
JA
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