Validation of the parenting stress index for brazilian Portuguese

Abstract

Objective: To present the cultural adaptation and validation of the Parenting Stress Index for Brazilian Portuguese Methods: Methodological research. For the validation, the scale was applied to 53 mothers of premature infants at the outpatient monitoring clinic of a public teaching hospital in Paraná between November 2013 and July 2014. For the data analysis, descriptive and inferential statistics were used Results: The reliability was satisfactory for the complete scale (α=0.91) and the domains: Child domain (α=0.87) and parents' domain (α=0.88). The principal components explained 64.57% of total item variation being 45.16% from the child's domain and 17.80% from the parents' domain Conclusion: The scale was appropriate to assess maternal stress after hospital discharge, endorsing its use in the Brazilian context in new studies to enhance its reliability and validity.