Tradução e adaptação cultural do Questionário Aberdeen para Veias Varicosas

Abstract

Background: Currently there is a growing interest in health assessment tools produced and validated throughout the world. Nevertheless, it is still inadequate the number of instruments that assess the impact of chronic venous disease in the life of its bearer. To use these measures it is necessary to accomplish the translation and cultural adaptation to the language in question. Objective: Translate to Portuguese and culturally adapted for the Brazilian population the Aberdeen Varicose Veins Questionnaire (AVVQ-Brazil). Methods: The process consisted of two translations and two back-translations performed by freelance translators, then the evaluation versions of the development of consensual version and commented pretest. Results: The patients in the pre-test were female, mean age 49.9 years, average response time of 7.73 minutes, which ranged from 4.55 minutes (minimum) to 10.13 minutes (maximum time). Education: 20% functional illiteracy and first and second complete degrees; 30% first incomplete degree, and 10% third complete degree. Clinical severity: 40% C3 and C6s, 10% C2 and C5, with five misunderstood terms in the application. Conclusion: The Portuguese version of the Aberdeen Varicose Veins Questionnaire has been translated and adapted for use in the Brazilian population, and can be used after further analysis of their clinimetric properties, which is underway.

Validação no Brasil de Questionário de Qualidade de Vida na Doença Venosa Crônica (Questionário Aberdeen para Veias Varicosas no Brasil/AVVQ-Brasil)

“…5,17 Recruitment of participants comprised two distinct stages: stage 1-Translation and Cultural Adaptation, for which 10 people were recruited, and stage 2-Validation, for which 107 people were recruited. The final data resulting from stage one have already been published in the Jornal Vascular Brasileiro, in an article entitled "Translation and cultural adaptation of Aberdeen Varicose Veins Questionnaire", 18 and this article will only describe data relating to Validation of the AVVQ -stage 2.…”

Análise dos efeitos dos exercícios aquáticos na qualidade de vida de indivíduos com doença venosa crônica

“…10 The AVVQ questionnaire is a QoL scale designed specifically for people with CVD and provides a measure of disease severity. The Portuguese version was validated for Brazil in 2012 by Leal et al 11 It has four domains, Pain and dysfunction, Esthetic appearance, Extent of varicosities and Complications, and comprises 13 questions. The first question consists of a diagram on which the patient illustrates, by drawing, the sites where they feel each limb is affected by varicose veins, which is then scored from 0 to 100, where 0 indicates no evidence of varicose veins and 100 the most severe problems associated with varicose veins.…”

Fisioterapia vascular no tratamento da doença venosa crônica

“…18 The AVVQ-Brazil questionnaire comprises 13 questions that relate to quality of life with CVD in the lower limbs and also cover disease severity, distributed across four domains: pain and dysfunction, esthetic appearance, extent of varicosity and complications, with scores ranging from zero to 100, where zero represents the best score (no evidence of the disease) and 100 the worst (greatest disease severity). 19,20 Volumetric measurement of limbs was conducted using a hand-built glass plethysmograph with the following dimensions: 40 cm high × 25 cm in wide × 32 cm deep, with a 3.5 cm gap between the top of the vessel and the overflow drain. All measurements were performed by the same examiner, using a basin with two drains (one for adjusting the water level and the other for the water displaced during measurement), at room temperature and for both LL of all patients.…”