Adaptation, validation and transcultural translation of the skinpicking scale and the skinpicking impact scale for Brazilian Portuguese

• Grant number: 17/21334-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: September 01, 2018
• End date: August 31, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Medicine - Psychiatry
• Principal Investigator: Hermano Tavares
• Grantee: Larissa Diaconiuc
• Host Institution: Instituto de Psiquiatria Doutor Antonio Carlos Pacheco e Silva (IPq). Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da USP (HCFMUSP). Secretaria da Saúde (São Paulo - Estado). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The Skinpicking Disorder (SD) is a condition that the patient repeatedly picks his own skin resulting in visible skin damage. The individual with SD tries to reduce this behavior several times with no success. This condition brings a lot of suffering for them and usually they have clinically significant distress or impairment in important areas of functioning. The SD cannot be better explained by a dermatological condition or by another psychiatric disorder. The PRO-AMITI is an outpatient clinic at Ipq-HCFMUSP, which has the first medical group that exclusively treats SD, and for better evaluation of our patients, it became necessary a validation of SD scales for Brazilian Portuguese. We chose "The Skin Picking Scale" and "The Skin Picking Impact Scale" scales, both widely used in the international scientific literature. The first is responsible for a measure of the assessment of SD and the second one is responsible for evaluating the impacts that this condition has in the patient's lives.