Cross-cultural Adaptation, Reliability, and Validity of the Work Role Functioning Questionnaire to Brazilian Portuguese

Abstract

The data showed that the cross-cultural adaptation process was successful and the adapted instrument demonstrated psychometric properties making it reliable to use in Brazilian culture.

The Work Role Functioning Questionnaire 2.0 (Dutch Version): Examination of its Reliability, Validity and Responsiveness in the General Working Population

“…translations to Canadian French [13], Brazilian Portuguese [14] and Dutch [15]. The Work Role Functioning Questionnaire (WRFQ) was used because it is a generic instrument developed to represent a broad variety of both job demands and health problems.…”

Mental Functioning of Workers with Cancer Diagnosis by Brazilian Version of the Work Role Functioning Questionnaire—<i>WRFQ-Br</i>

“…Workers who did not report any health complaints or difficulties at work, who participated of a previous study [14] [15] [16], with similar social, economic and educational were selected among employees at a technological development center in the state of São Paulo, and defined as "Healthy Workers". This inclusion was approved by the ethical committee.…”

“…Based on previous research, a form containing questions about age, gender, diagnosis, therapeutic protocol, date of the last radiotherapy session, educational level, occupa-tion, job hours per week, period of work and complaints about health was performed to define population socio, demographic and clinical data characteristics [14]. Thereafter, occupations were classified as job types according to Hébert's classification [17], following the same methods as previous studies.…”

“…The WRFQ-br examines the percentage of time that workers have difficulties in accomplishing the work demands due to health problems [18] [19] [20]. This health measurement tool was translated and had its psychometric properties evaluated for whole instrument ad for each subscale to Brazilian workers in previous studies [14] [16].…”

“…The WRFQ-Br has shown good reliability and validity in populations with musculoskeletal symptoms and among workers with cancer diagnosis in radiotherapy, i.e., it is an appropriate instrument to measure the mental functioning of workers with chronic health conditions [14] [15] [16].…”