Tradução e adaptação cultural da Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (BIS-11) para aplicação em adultos brasileiros

OBJETIVOS: Os objetivos deste estudo foram traduzir, adaptar culturalmente e verificar a equivalência literal, semântica e idiomática da Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (BIS-11), que avalia a presença de manifestações da impulsividade tendo como base o modelo teórico proposto por Ernst Barratt. MÉTODOS: Inicialmente, a versão original em inglês da BIS-11 foi traduzida para o português por seis pesquisadores bilíngues. Em seguida, foi realizada uma tradução reversa para o inglês por uma tradutora de origem norte-americana. As versões original, traduzida e retraduzida foram avaliadas por um comitê de juízes especialistas, os quais emitiram pareceres com as observações pertinentes, o que culminou em uma versão final traduzida da BIS-11. As versões original e traduzida foram aplicadas em duas amostras da população geral com proficiência na língua inglesa, a fim de investigar a equivalência literal, semântica e idiomática da versão traduzida por meio de análises de correlação. CONCLUSÃO: Os resultados das análises quantitativas indicaram que a versão final do instrumento é satisfatória.

A música clássica: um objeto cultural, artístico e comunicacional para o desenvolvimento humano

Dissertação de mestrado em Comunicação, Arte e Cultura

Personal and Social Performance (PSP) scale for patients with schizophrenia: translation to Portuguese, cross-cultural adaptation and interrater reliability

INTRODUCTION: Schizophrenia is a chronic mental disorder associated with impairment in social functioning. The most widely used scale to measure social functioning is the GAF (Global Assessment of Functioning), but it has the disadvantage of measuring at the same time symptoms and functioning, as described in its anchors. OBJECTIVES:Translation and cultural adaptation of the PSP, proposing a final version in Portuguese for use in Brazil. METHODS: We performed five steps: 1) translation; 2) back translation; 3) formal assessment of semantic equivalence; 4) debriefing; 5) analysis by experts. Interrater reliability (Intraclass correlation, ICC) between two raters was also measured. RESULTS: The final version was applied by two independent investigators in 18 adults with schizophrenia (DSM-IV-TR). The interrater reliability (ICC) was 0.812 (p < 0.001). CONCLUSION: The translation and adaptation of the PSP had an adequate level of semantic equivalence between the Portuguese version and the original English version. There were no difficulties related to understanding the content expressed in the translated texts and terms. Its application was easy and it showed a good interrater reliability. The PSP is a valid instrument for the measurement of personal and social functioning in schizophrenia.

Cultural studies as the new humanities

The purpose of this study is to argue that Cultural Studies may be regarded as the new humanities. Cultural Studies focus on ethnic, post-colonial, communication, anthropological, ethnographic and feminist studies, and only ‘very marginally’ have they shown an interest in literature and literary studies (Aguiar & Silva, 2008). But those fields, which ‘Social Science’ rather than the ‘Arts’ have invested in (Ibid., p. 254), are the touchstone of modernity. Today, the concept we have of humankind is, to a large extent, played out in these areas. The questioning of both humankind and modernity has as backdrop the technologically-driven shift of culture from word to image (Martins, 2011 a). My proposal takes into account this debate, while underscoring how Cultural Studies are engaged in what is current and contemporary, which means, in the present and everyday life.

Cross-cultural adaptation to Brazil of Medication Adherence Rating Scale for psychiatric patients

Objective The purpose of this research was to make a cross-cultural adaptation of the Medication Adherence Rating Scale (MARS) for psychiatric patients to the Brazilian context. Methods The procedure consisted of four phases: translation of the original scale, back-translation, review by an Expert Committee and Pre-test study with a patients’ sample. Results The Expert Committee corrected the items’ translation when necessary and modified the scale administration format and its instructions from self-report to face-to-face interview form in order to ensure easy understanding by the target population. During Pre-test, the instructions and most of the items were properly understood by patients, with the exception of three of them which had to be changed in order to ensure better understanding. The Pre-test sample was composed by 30 psychiatric patients, with severe and persistent disorders mainly single (46.7%), female (60.0%), with a mean age of 43.8 years old and an average of five years of education. Conclusion The Brazilian version of MARS scale is now adapted to the Brazilian Portuguese language and culture and is easily understood by the psychiatric target population. It is necessary to do further research to evaluate the scale psychometric qualities of validity and reliability in order to use it in Brazil.

Interação cultural e interpretatio na epigrafia votiva: o caso da fachada ocidental do conuentus Bracaraugustanus

Dissertação de mestrado em Arqueologia

Valorização do património tradicional em Santana: um contributo para o crescimento do turismo cultural da Madeira

Dissertação de mestrado em Património e Turismo Cultural

Gestor cultural: práticas culturais de um mediador

Com o objetivo de aferir as práticas culturais dos estudantes que, no ano letivo 2015/2016, frequentavam os cursos de licenciatura e de mestrado em Gestão Artística e Cultural ministrados no Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, foi aplicado, nos meses de outubro e de novembro de 2015, um inquérito por questionário a todos os estudantes que estavam inscritos nos dois cursos. No presente artigo vai fazer-se a apresentação sumária e holística dos resultados obtidos: a análise preliminar dos dados recolhidos permite concluir que as práticas culturais dos estudantes são muito baixas, estando por isso em linha com as práticas culturais da generalidade dos portugueses. Depois da necessária triangulação dos resultados com dados provenientes de outras fontes, vai procurar definir-se uma estratégia para, a curto prazo, incrementar, cooperativa e explicitamente, o fomento das práticas culturais na formação dos futuros Gestores Culturais. Com o presente artigo pretende-se abrir a discussão crítica sobre os resultados preliminares de forma a encontrar estratégias integradas que possam concorrer substantivamente para a alteração da realidade observada.

Infância, escola e diversidade cultural: vozes plurais na caraterização de uma realidade plural

Dissertação de mestrado em Sociologia da Infância

Georeferencing historical documents: the case of the Dume Boundary

Much of the information of historical documents about the territory and property are defined on textual form. This information is mostly geographic and defines territorial areas, its limits and boundaries. For the treatment of this data, we have defined one information system where the treatment of the documental references for the study of the settlement and landscape implies a systematization of the information, normalization, integration and graphic and cartographic representation. This methodology was applied to the case study of the boundary of the monastery-diocese of Dume, in Braga - Portugal, for which there are countless documents and references to this site, but where the urban pressure has mischaracterized very significantly the landscape, making the identification of territorial limits quite difficult. The work carried out to give spatial and cartographic expression to the data, by defining viewing criteria according to the recorded information, proved to be a central working tool in the boundary study and in understanding the dynamics of the sites in the various cultural periods.

Interpersonal and attitudinal factors in women's work role: Cross-cultural comparison

The last four decades have seen a dramatic increase in the number of women entering employment. This is particularly true in Europe and although more European women are working outside the home, the patterns of female employment have changed very little. An analysis of these patterns is presented. It was found that women continue to dominate specific fields, particularly teaching and service providing. An investigation of the interpersonal behavior differences among 117 American women from the southeastern United States in three work roles--homemakers, women in traditional occupations, and in nontraditional occupations--was conducted and the sex-role orientation, attitudes toward success, and demographic indicators were examined in order to consider the interplay of these variables with female occupational role and interpersonal behavior. A second focus of the study is on the cross-cultural comparison of the psychological and work variables in women of two different cultures: America and Portugal. Thirty-one Portuguese women were a preliminary comparison sample. The American results showed significant differences between groups in self-perceived interpersonal behaviors and the findings contradicted current stereotypes. The cross-cultural data, although preliminary, indicates differences between the countries in social desirability, aggressive and assertive behaviors, and in sex-role attitudes, which seem to reflect the different stages of economic development. (MKA)

Cultural circuits of climate change in U.K. broadsheet newspapers, 1985–2003

This article argues for a cultural perspective to be brought to bear on studies of climate change risk perception. Developing the “circuit of culture” model, the article maintains that the producers and consumers of media texts are jointly engaged in dynamic, meaning-making activities that are context-specific and that change over time. A critical discourse analysis of climate change based on a database of newspaper reports from three U.K. broadsheet papers over the period 1985–2003 is presented. This empirical study identifies three distinct circuits of climate change—1985–1990, 1991–1996, 1997–2003—which are characterized by different framings of risks associated with climate change. The article concludes that there is evidence of social learning as actors build on their experiences in relation to climate change science and policy making. Two important factors in shaping the U.K.’s broadsheet newspapers’ discourse on “dangerous” climate change emerge as the agency of top political figures and the dominant ideological standpoints in different newspapers.

As relações bilaterais entre Portugal e a China: enquadramento histórico-económico e distância cultural

Relatório de estágio de mestrado em Estudos Interculturais Português/Chinês: Tradução, Formação e Comunicação Empresarial

Consciência cultural no trabalho das ONGD em Moçambique:dilemas e escolhas

Dissertação de Mestrado em Estudos Africanos

El centro de interpretación del paisaje natural, histórico y cultural del norte cordobés, sede Ischilín, como un instrumento para el desarrollo regional: la planificación estratégica de la localidad de Ischilín como un modelo estructurante microregional

El proyecto cierra una investigación tendiente a sustentar una intervención de Diseño Territorial que rescatase en su proceso al patrimonio cultural y paisajístico natural, configurándolo como un instrumento para su desarrollo humano sustentable, ordenamiento y resignificación de área de planificación, acentuando la identidad local y promoviendo un turismo de valores culturales y sociales. La primer etapa de la investigación SIP1 (2002-2003), desarrolló estos contenidos como una Planificación Estratégica General de la Región Norte de Córdoba con una escala de aproximación de gran extensión. La segunda etapa SIP2 (2004-2006) se centró en la planificación de un área testigo de escala media de aproximación donde se validasen las hipótesis propuestas para la protección ambiental, conservación del patrimonio natural y cultural, uso sustentable turístico del territorio y configuración de oportunidades de desarrollo humano con alta calidad de vida. La tercer etapa, la actual, SIP3 (2007 – 2008) en una escala de aproximación muy cercana y particularizada, consiste en la fundamentación de una legislación necesaria y común para todos los asentamientos urbanos del área, presentando al Poblado de Ischilín como modelo de una pieza componente síntesis y generadora del Parque Regional Paisajístico Cultural y de servicios para el Desarrollo Social de la Región Norte de Córdoba, propuesto en la primer etapa de la investigación. Sus elementos componentes considerados son: •Teselas microterritoriales repropuestas. •Tejido conectivo de protección, desarrollado y de reconstrucción ambiental •Sistema de corredores de vinculación entre teselas y regiones •Áreas especiales de revalorización o innovación paisajística •Nodos de intercambio y de localización del equipamiento cultural y para el desarrollo personal y social: el Centro, Áreas y Sendas de Interpretación.