Adaptação transcultural do instrumento “Nursing Students’ Attitudes Toward Mental Health Nursing and Consumers” no Brasil

Abstract

Objective: to make across-cultural adaptation of the "Nursing Students' Attitudes Toward Mental Health Nursing and Consumers" scale in Brazil. Method: the scale was tested regarding conceptual, item, semantic, and operational equivalence. Results: content validation was conducted by an expert committee with a minimum consensus level of 80%. This process resulted in a 35-item scale divided into 6 factors. The experts reached 100% consensus on the scale's clarity of language, practical pertinence and theoretical relevance, as well as on the need for excluding one factor. Data were collected in 2013 in the city of Londrina, Paraná, Brazil. Conclusion: the instrument was cross-culturally adapted to Brazilian Portuguese and presented satisfactory content validity. We propose further studies on the scale's psychometric properties, such as construct validity, internal consistency and reliability. Key words: Psychiatric Nursing; Validation Studies; Education, Higher; Scales. RESUMO Objetivo: realizar a adaptação transcultural a escala Nursing Students' Attitudes Toward Mental Health Nursing and Consumers no Brasil. Métodos: os dados foram coletados em 2013, na cidade de Londrina-PR. As etapas metodológicas foram as de equivalência conceitual e de itens, equivalência semântica e equivalência operacional. Resultados: a validade de conteúdo realizada por um grupo de juízes, com o consenso mínimo de 80% resultou numa escala composta por 35 itens divididos em 6 fatores. Houve concordância de 100% dos juízes quanto aos parâmetros de clareza de linguagem, pertinência prática, e relevância teórica, assim como para exclusão de um fator. Conclusão: o instrumento está adaptado culturalmente para o Brasil, assim como apresenta validade de conteúdo satisfatória. São sugeridos estudos das propriedades psicométricas como a validade de construto, consistência interna e a confi abilidade do instrumento. Descritores: Enfermagem Psiquiátrica; Estudos de Validação; Educação Superior; Escalas. RESUMEN Objetivo: hacer la adaptación transcultural de la escala "Nursing Students Attitudes Toward Mental Health Nursing and Consumers" en Brasil. Métodos: los datos fueron recogidos en 2013, en Londrina, Brasil. Los pasos metodológicos fueron la equivalencia conceptual y equivalencia semántica y operativa. Resultados: la validez de contenido hecho por uno grupo de

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