Translation, transcultural adaptation and validation to Brazilian Portuguese of tools for adverse drug reaction assessment in children.

Background: Children are more vulnerable to adverse drug reactions (ADRs) due to complex changes in the body during the growth process and lack specific pharmacoepidemiologic studies. Causality and Avoidability assessment of ADRs are relevant to clinical guidelines development and pharmacovigilance. This study aimed to translate and transcultural adapt two new tools-Liverpool Causality Assessment Tool (LCAT) and the Liverpool Avoidability Assessment Tool (LAAT)-to Brazilian-Portuguese and evaluate the psychometric properties of these tools to analyse ADRs in Brazilian children.

Covid-19 Confinement and Changes of Adolescent's Dietary Trends in Italy, Spain, Chile, Colombia and Brazil.

Confinement due to the COVID-19 pandemic can influence dietary profiles, especially those of adolescents, who are highly susceptible to acquiring bad eating habits. Adolescents' poor dietary habits increase their subsequent risk of degenerative diseases such as obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular pathologies, etc. Our aim was to study nutritional modifications during COVID-19 confinement in adolescents aged 10 to 19 years, compare them with their usual diet and dietary guidelines, and identify variables that may have influenced changes.

[Semantic and item equivalences of the Brazilian Portuguese version of the Vécu et Santé Perçue de l'Adolescent: an adolescent quality-of-life questionnaire].

In Brazil, no instruments evaluating adolescents' health-related quality of life (HRQoL) have been developed from the adolescents' point of view. The use of an instrument developed in another socio-cultural context requires prior cultural adaptation, including conceptual, item, and semantic equivalence in the process. Vécu et Santé Perçue de l'Adolescent (VSP-A) is a French generic instrument developed to evaluate adolescents' HRQoL.

[Portuguese-language cultural adaptation and translation of "The Bowel Disease Questionnaire" used to assess functional bowel disorders].

Background: Functional bowel disorders are considered a public health problem, but there are a few prevalence studies in Brazil. In 1999, researchers from the Mayo Clinic developed The Bowel Disease Questionnaire with the purpose to evaluate functional bowel disorders. Although this has been used in different studies and population, it is often necessary to perform a cultural adaptation of a questionnaire developed for use in another culture, in order to improve the quality of the information obtained.

[Safe school].

Objective: To review the strategies to make school a safe environment. The paper first addresses the social context of accidents and violence in the school environment, and makes recommendations, based on the literature data, for the implementation of safe schools.

Source Of Data: Articles published between 1993 and 2005 in the MEDLINE database.