Adaptação transcultural para o Brasil do instrumento Caregiver Abuse Screen (CASE) para detecção de violência de cuidadores contra idosos

• Autor(a) principal: Paixão Jr, Carlos Montes
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Outros Autores: Reichenheim, Michael Eduardo, Moraes, Cláudia Leite, Coutinho, Evandro Silva Freire, Veras, Renato P.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Cadernos de Saúde Pública
• Texto Completo: https://cadernos.ensp.fiocruz.br/ojs/index.php/csp/article/view/3075
• topic: Violência Doméstica; Idoso; Cuidadore

This first of two papers focuses on the first part in the cross-cultural adaptation of the Portuguese-language version of Caregiver Abuse Screen (CASE), a brief instrument for detecting domestic violence against the elderly. CASE was originally developed in Canada and used to screen violence against the elderly by interviewing their caregivers. Besides a broad literature review, the evaluation of conceptual and item equivalences involved expert discussion groups. Semantic equivalence included the following steps: two translations and respective back-translations; an evaluation of referential and general (connotative) equivalence between the original instrument and each version; further discussions with experts in order to define the final version; and pre-testing the latter in 40 caregivers of elderly subjects in an outpatient geriatric clinic. It was possible to establish high-quality conceptual, item, and semantic equivalence for the Portuguese-language version. Although the results shown here were encouraging, they should be reevaluated in light of a forthcoming psychometric analysis (measurement equivalence) to be performed by the research group.