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Cultural adaptation of the Glamorgan Scale to Brazilian Portuguese: Pressure Injury in Pediatrics* * Paper extracted from doctoral dissertation “Tradução e adaptação transcultural da Glamorgan Scale: comparação preditiva com a Escala de Braden Q”, presented to Universidade Estadual Paulista, Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu, Botucatu, SP, Brazil. This study was financed in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - (CAPES) - Finance Code 001, Grant # 88882.433308/2019-01, Brazil.

Objective:

to describe the methodological process of cultural adaptation of the Glamorgan Scale to Brazilian Portuguese.

Method:

a methodological study of translation and cultural adaptation of the Glamorgan Scale, following the six stages: initial translation, synthesis of translations, back-translation, committee of experts, pre-test, and submission of the adapted version to the author for approval. The committee of experts was composed of five physicians and, during evaluation, a semantic, idiomatic, cultural and conceptual analysis was carried out. The agreement and representativeness of the items were assessed using the Content Validity Index. A minimum value of 80% agreement was considered.

Results:

all stages of the translation and cross-cultural adaptation process were satisfactory. In the evaluation made by the committee of experts, all items obtained an agreement greater than 80% in the first evaluation round. The pre-test stage allowed for a critical overview of the instrument, where few modifications were suggested by the participants.

Conclusion:

the Glamorgan Scale was translated and culturally adapted to Brazilian Portuguese. Future psychometric studies are necessary to validate the scale.

Descriptors:
Translating; Transcultural Studies; Nursing Methodology Research; Pressure Ulcer; Quality of Health Care; Pediatric Nursing


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