Cross-cultural adaptation of the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist 5 (PCL-5) and Life Events Checklist 5 (LEC-5) for the Brazilian context

Abstract Objective: To describe the process of cross-cultural adaptation of the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist 5 (PCL-5) and the Life Events Checklist 5 (LEC-5) for the Brazilian sociolinguistic context. Method: The adaptation process sought to establish conceptual, semantic, and operati...

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Main Authors: Eduardo de Paula Lima, Alina Gomide Vasconcelos, William Berger, Christian Haag Kristensen, Elizabeth do Nascimento, Ivan Figueira, Mauro Vitor Mendlowicz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação de Psiquiatria do Rio Grande do Sul
Series:Trends in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2237-60892016000400207&lng=en&tlng=en