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Translation, cultural adaptation and evaluation of the psychometric properties of the Hamilton Anxiety Scale among a sample of Portuguese adult patients with mental health disorders
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Background Only a few anxiety assessment tools that nurses may administer are validated forthe Portuguese
population exist in the literature. Thus, this study aimed to translate and culturally adapt the Hamilton Anxiety Scale
for the Portuguese population and assess its psychometric properties in a sample of adult people with mental health
disorders.
Methods This psychometric study uses a convenience sample of adult patients with mental health disorders.
Results The confrmatory factor analysis confrmed the two factors of the original version of the tool. The internal
consistency (Cronbach’s alpha) was high, at .92, as well as the inter-rater reliability (intraclass correlation coefcient)
(.91).
Conclusions The validity and reliability of the instrument are supported. However, the Hamilton Anxiety Scale
should be used cautiously in the Portuguese population because the correlation with the “Anxiety State” subscale
of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory is not statistically signifcant.
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Keywords
Anxiety Hamilton Anxiety Scale Psychiatry Psychometrics
Pedagogical Context
Citation
Dos Santos, E. R. P., Coelho, J. C. F., Ribeiro, I., & Sampaio, F. (2023). Translation, cultural adaptation and evaluation of the psychometric properties of the Hamilton Anxiety Scale among a sample of Portuguese adult patients with mental health disorders. BMC psychiatry, 23(1), 520. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-023-05010-5
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Springer