The Brazilian version of the Hip Sports Activity Scale: translation and cross-cultural adaptation

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The Hip Sports Activity Scale (HSAS) is a reliable and valid tool for determining the levels of sports activities among patients with femoroacetabular impingement (FAI). OBJECTIVE: To translate and cross-culturally adapt the HSAS to the Brazilian Portuguese language. DESIGN AND SETTING: This was a cross-sectional study conducted at the State University of Rio de Janeiro. METHODS: The Brazilian version of the HSAS was developed following a process that comprised six steps: translation, synthesis, back-translation, review by committee, pretesting and submission of documentation to the developers. The translation phase involved three independent bilingual translators whose mother language was Brazilian Portuguese. The back-translation phase involved three independent translators whose mother language was English. In order to verify comprehension of the questionnaire, 30 undergraduate students in physical education (65% men), with mean age 23.2 years (standard deviation = 6.8), participated in the pre-testing phase. RESULTS: During the translation step, some terms and expressions were changed to obtain cultural equivalence to the original HSAS. In the pre-testing phase, each item of the scale showed a comprehension level of 100%. CONCLUSION: The HSAS was translated from English to the Brazilian Portuguese language and adapted to Brazilian culture. The HSAS validation is ongoing.

Validation of the Brazilian version of the Hip Sports Activity Scale (HSAS) for patients with femoroacetabular impingement: a cross-sectional study

“…10 The HSAS was also translated and cross-culturally adapted into Swedish and Brazilian Portuguese languages. 11,17 The Swedish version has already been validated. The current study showed that the Brazilian version of the HSAS is a reliable and valid scale to estimate sports activity levels in patients with FAI syndrome, comprising characteristics equivalent to those in the original version.…”

“…Intra-evaluator test-retest reliability estimates the fraction of the total variability of measurements. For example, the selected patients initially answered the Brazilian versions of three questionnaires: the SF-12, 12 NAHS, and HSAS; 11,13 after a 48-hour interval, they answered the HSAS-Brazil again. During this time, no new medication, therapy, or procedures that might have rapidly changed the patient's clinical state were introduced.…”