Fat phobia scale-short form and beliefs about obese persons scale: cross-cultural adaptation to Brazilian Portuguese
Gabriela Cristina Arces de Souza,
Maria Fernanda Laus,
Wanderson Roberto da Silva
et al.
Abstract:The Fat Phobia Scale-Short Form (FPS) and the Beliefs About Obese Persons Scale (BAOP) are scales developed to investigate fatphobia and beliefs about obese persons, respectively. The aim of the study was to carry out the cross-cultural adaptation of these scales to Brazilian Portuguese. The methodology was carried out in 5 stages: 1. translation, 2. synthesis of translations, 3. evaluation by the expert committee of semantic, idiomatic, experiential and conceptual equivalences, 4. discussion with the target p… Show more
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