Adaptação transcultural para o português (Brasil) da Vulnerability to Abuse Screening Scale (VASS) para rastreio da violência contra idosos

Maia, Rodrigo da Silva; Maia, Eulália Maria Chaves

doi:10.1590/0102-311x00014814

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“…By comparing the findings of transcultural adaptation of the VASS in this study with those found by Maia and Maia 11 , we encountered similarities regarding general and referential meaning. For general meaning, this study was more successful in RT2, with nine items against eight unchanged items presented by Maia and Maia.…”

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confidence: 57%

“…The decision to analyze VASS was also based on the premise that the scale has a variable validated for Brazilian culture in Conflict Tactics Scales (CTS) 6 , 11 that could suggest the occurrence of violence by an intimate partner, and an item related to the feeling of fear of someone in the family, which could explain the general construct of vulnerability to abuse, especially from people close to the older adults.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Psychometric properties of the Vulnerability to Abuse Screening Scale for screening abuse of older adults

2017

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OBJECTIVE Adapt and evaluate the psychometric properties of the Vulnerability to Abuse Screening Scale to identify risk of domestic violence against older adults in Brazil.METHODS The instrument was adapted and validated in a sample of 151 older adults from a geriatric reference center in the municipality of Belo Horizonte, State of Minas Gerais, in 2014. We collected sociodemographic, clinical, and abuse-related information, and verified reliability by reproducibility in a sample of 55 older people, who underwent re-testing of the instrument seven days after the first application. Descriptive and comparative analyses were performed for all variables, with a significance level of 5%. The construct validity was analyzed by the principal components method with a tetrachoric correlation matrix, the reliability of the scale by the weighted Kappa (Kp) statistic, and the internal consistency by the Kuder-Richardson estimator formula 20 (KR-20).RESULTS The average age of the participants was 72.1 years (DP = 6.96; 95%CI 70.94–73.17), with a maximum of 92 years, and they were predominantly female (76.2%; 95%CI 69.82–83.03). When analyzing the relationship between the scores of the Vulnerability to Abuse Screening Scale, categorized by presence (score > 3) or absence (score < 3) of vulnerability to abuse, with clinical and health conditions, we found statistically significant differences for self-perception of health (p = 0.002), depressive symptoms (p = 0.000), and presence of rheumatism (p = 0.003). There were no statistically significant differences between sexes. The Vulnerability to Abuse Screening Scale acceptably evaluated validity in the transcultural adaptation process, demonstrating dimensionality coherent with the original proposal (four factors). In the internal consistency analysis, the instrument presented good results (KR-20 = 0.69) and the reliability via reproducibility was considered excellent for the global scale (Kp = 0.92).CONCLUSIONS The Vulnerability to Abuse Screening Scale proved to be a valid instrument with good psychometric capacity for screening domestic abuse against older adults in Brazil.

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Psychometric properties of the Vulnerability to Abuse Screening Scale for screening abuse of older adults

2017

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“…The instrument used to collect the data related to the risk of violence against older people living in the community was adapted from the Elder Abuse and Neglect-Risk Assessment Tool (E-IOA) [24] and included contributions from the Vulnerability to Abuse Screening Scale (VASS) adapted to the Brazilian reality [25]. This conjunction resulted in the Scale of Evaluation of the Risk of Violence against Non-institutionalized Older People (ARVINI), consisting of 36 questions with two response possibilities, "yes", "no", scored as 1, 0, respectively.…”

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Aging safely in Alentejo – understanding for action - preventing falls and violence against older people: study rationale, aims, design, and preliminary results

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Background Falls and violence against older people might represent a joint public health problem, as both may result in injury, fear, social isolation, sedentary behavior and dependence or even death. The ESACA project “Aging safely in Alentejo - Understanding for action” was designed to promote the healthy aging of older people in Alentejo by preventing the occurrence of falls and violence. This study aimed to report the ESACA protocol and the preliminary outcomes. Methods The ESACA study has a twofold design as a cross-sectional study that included retrospective and prospective surveys. The participants were 508 community-dwelling older people. Assessments included falls, the risk of violence against older people, sociodemographic characteristics, health-related measurements, fear of falling, anthropometric measures and body composition, functional physical fitness, physical activity, and environmental hazards. Results Among the participants, 43% were fallers, 21% were recurrent fallers, and 22% were victims of one or more kinds of violence (psychological: 17.1%, physical: 5.6%, and patrimonial: 3.0%). Moreover, the cumulative results suggested high risk on several risk factors for falling (7 factors: 0.6% to 2 factors: 17.4%) and of violence (26.7%). Conclusions In the ESACA project, a wide range of potential influencing factors on falls and violence risk factors were measured, and comprehensive quality control measures were applied. Overall, the results suggest that for falls and violence prevention strategies to be effective, it is essential to evaluate, diagnose, and inform all stakeholders in a directed and useful way. Moreover, we believe that our project outcomes may help change mindsets and behaviors by involving people in active aging and well-being programs that promote exercise and avoid isolation.

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“…The instrument used to collect data was constructed from the adaptation of the Elder Abuse and Neglect-Risk Assessment Tool (E-IOA), after obtaining the authorization of the respective authors (Cohen, Halevi-Levin, Gagin & Friedman, 2006) and also received with contributions from the Vulnerability to Abuse Screening Scale (VASS) adapted to the Brazilian reality by Maia (2014), who also granted authorization for this adaptation. This resulted in the instrument called Scale of Evaluation of the Risk of Violence against Non-institutionalised Elderly People (ARVINI), consisting of 36 questions, to which the elderly person has the option of answering: "yes, no and no answer".…”

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The Relationship Between Depression and Violence Risk Predictors on Elderly

Pereira¹,

Mendes²,

Mestre³

et al. 2018

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The purpose of this study was to understand the correlation between the elderly with depressive symptomatology and the predictors of the risk of violence against them. The method used was a quantitative approach using the Statistical Package program for Social Sciences. There was a participation of 237 elderly people aged 65-96 years, of the project “Aging in Safety in Alentejo-Understanding to Act”, at the University of Évora. The Geriatric Depression Scale and the Predictors of Risk of Violence (an adaptation of the Elder Abuse and Neglect-Risk Assessment Tool and Vulnerability to Abuse Screening Scale) were applied. About the results, 50 elderly (21.1%) had mild depressive symptomatology, and 14 (5.9%) had severe depressive symptomatology. Of the 64 elderly individuals who presented depressive symptomatology 55 were female. In the relationship between the severity of depressive symptomatology and predictors of risk of violence, significant results were found in three dimensions: current supports and relationships, family context and cognitive/emotional difficulties. The main conclusion of the study is that factors like no social support networks, complex family context and cognitive and emotional changes, contribute to greater physical and mental vulnerability of the elderly, resulting in cases of anxiety and stress, which present a depressive symptomatology and the risk of violence.

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Adaptação transcultural para o português (Brasil) da Vulnerability to Abuse Screening Scale (VASS) para rastreio da violência contra idosos

Cited by 14 publications

References 11 publications

Psychometric properties of the Vulnerability to Abuse Screening Scale for screening abuse of older adults

Psychometric properties of the Vulnerability to Abuse Screening Scale for screening abuse of older adults

Aging safely in Alentejo – understanding for action - preventing falls and violence against older people: study rationale, aims, design, and preliminary results

The Relationship Between Depression and Violence Risk Predictors on Elderly

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