Cross-cultural adaptation of the Burns Specific Pain Anxiety Scale - BSPAS to be used with Brazilian burned patients

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Echevarría-Guanilo ME, Rossi LA, Dantas RAS, Santos CB. Cross-cultural adaptation of the Burns Specific Pain Anxiety Scale -BSPAS to be used with Brazilian burned patients. Rev Latino-am Enfermagem 2006 julhoagosto; 14(4):526-33. This study aimed at translating and adapting the Burns Specific Pain Anxiety Scale -BSPAS and the ADAPTAÇÃO TRANSCULTURAL DA "BURNS SPECIFIC PAIN ANXIETY SCALE -BSPAS" PARA SER APLICADA EM PACIENTES QUEIMADOS BRASILEIROS Este estudo teve como objetivos traduzir e adaptar a "Burns Specific Pain Anxiety Scale -BSPAS" e a "Impact of Event Scale -IES" para a língua portuguesa, disponibilizar dois instrumentos simples, curtos e de fácil aplicação e descrever os participantes do estudo, segundo os escores obtidos por meio da aplicação da

Cross-cultural adaptation and validity of the "Edmonton Frail Scale - EFS" in a Brazilian elderly sample

“…The order of phases was modified as proposed by Ferrer (7) , modifications that have been used in Brazilian research (8)(9)(10) After the translation to Portuguese, the back translation was started. For this purposes, two To analyze the construct validity of the EFS, S p e a r m a n ' s n o n -p a r a m e t r i c r a n k c o r r e l a t i o n coefficient was calculated, between the frailty diagnosis and the gross MMSE score and the FIM diagnosis.…”

Adaptação Transcultural De Instrumentos De Pesquisa Conduzida Pela Enfermagem Do Brasil: Uma Revisão Integrativa

“…The most-used methodological framework for CCA, in 20 articles analyzed, was that with Beaton as either the main author or as a contributing author, published in different years. [9][10][11][12][14][15][16][17][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30] Regarding the stages of the CCA process, in 14 of the articles analyzed [11][12][14][15][16][18][19][20][21]24,[26][27][29][30] the following sequence was adopted: translation, synthesis of the translations, back-translation, analysis by a committee of specialists, and pretesting of the adapted version. 1 In the other studies [9][10]13,17,[22][23]25,28 this sequence of the process was altered.…”

“…16,21,26 In four of the articles, however, there was no information on the nationality of the translators 11,17,20,28 responsible for the stages of translation and/or back-translation of the instrument. In six 21,23,25,27,[29][30] articles analyzed, there was either a partial or total absence of information on the obligatory characteristics or criteria for selecting the translators responsible for the stages of initial translation and back-translation, or the recommendations regarding these criteria were not followed.…”

“…In relation to the minimum number of participants in the sample of the pretest of the instrument, in three articles analyzed 10,[28][29] it was possible to observe the use of samples with fewer than 30 to 40 people.…”

“…Regarding the description of the procedures adopted in the stages of CCA it was observed that in 20 articles [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][19][20][21][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30] the authors were concerned with giving a detailed description of the largest part of the process, evidencing the attention given to the methodological rigor adopted. 3 The description of the process of selecting the experts who made up the specialist committees was observed in 18 articles.…”