Banca de DEFESA: Augusta Karla Silva Quintanilha

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STUDENT : Augusta Karla Silva Quintanilha
DATE: 29/07/2021
TIME: 13:30
LOCAL: https://meet.google.com/rew-yuqy-ssg
TITLE:

Cross-cultural adaptation and reliability of the Social Physical Anxiety Scale, Functionality Appreciation Scale and Self-Acceptance Scale - Early Blindness for visually impaired adolescents in Brazil

KEY WORDS:

Psychometry. Content Validity. Blindness.

PAGES: 233
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Educação
SUBÁREA: Tópicos Específicos de Educação
SPECIALTY: Educação Especial
SUMMARY:

Body image is a concept that has gained representation in recent decades. Therefore, many researchers have made efforts to study it. In this sense, scholars have been working on the development, validation and/or cross-cultural adaptation of instruments for their evaluation in the most diverse populations, amongst them, people with visual impairment. The objective of this research was to carry out the cross-cultural adaptation and check the reliability of the Social Physical Anxiety Scale (SPAS), Functionality Assessment Scale (FAS) and Self-Acceptance Scale - Early Blindness (SAS-EB) for a population of adolescents with visual impairment in Brazil. For the cross-cultural adaptation process, the scales went through the steps recommended by Beaton et al. (2002) which considers translation, synthesis meeting, back-translation, expert committee and pre-test. Different experts evaluated the scales, namely: body image, special education, methodologist, psychologist, linguist experts and member of the target population. As for the pre-test, in which the content validity and reliability of the instruments were evaluated, the target population was 25 adolescents with visual impairment, of both genders, aged between 10 and 19 years (mean 17.08, SD = 1.97), including low vision and blindness. Participants came from schools and institutions in Brazil, such as Instituto Benjamin Constant, Municipal Educational Center for the Visually Impaired of Resende, both in Rio de Janeiro, Instituto Paranaense de Cegos, no Paraná, Facebook Groups and indication of the participants themselves. The reliability measure was made through internal consistency, measured with Cronbach's alpha. All data collection was online because of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has social isolation as the main measure to contain the virus. The SPAS and FAS unifactorial scales showed evidence of content validity and reliability (both with an alpha of 0.74). SAS also provided evidence of content validity. However, in the reliability calculation, one of its factors, named Protection against stigmas, presented a reference value below the cutoff point (α = 0.52). The other two factors presented satisfactory values (Body acceptance factor - α = 0.75; Feelings and beliefs of abilities - α = 0.83). This research presents adapted versions of three important body image assessment instruments for Brazilian adolescents with visual impairment. The reliability of the instruments proved to be adequate, especially for the SPAS and FAS. These instruments can be very useful to monitor pedagogical strategies focused on the body image of adolescents with visual impairment in schools throughout Brazil. However, future studies should explore the factor structure and construct validity of the adapted instruments.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 2200105 - FABIANE FROTA DA ROCHA MORGADO
Interno - 387329 - JOSE HENRIQUE DOS SANTOS
Externa à Instituição - MARIA ELISA CAPUTO FERREIRA - UFJF
Externo à Instituição - Paulo José Barbosa Gutierres Filho - UnB