Características de acesso ao preventivo de câncer de colo do útero: três etapas metodológicas da adaptação do instrumento de coleta de informação

• Autor(a) principal: Nascimento, Maria Isabel do
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Outros Autores: Monteiro, Gina Torres Rego
• 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/4332
• topic: Neoplasias do Colo do Útero; Acesso aos Serviços de Saúde; Questionários

The article describes the initial steps in the Portuguese-language adaptation of an instrument to measure characteristics of access to cervical cancer prevention. A universalist approach was adopted to assess conceptual, item, and semantic equivalence. The methodology included a literature review and participation by both experts and women representing the general population. Conceptual and item equivalence was established with participation by experts. Semantic equivalence was analyzed in five stages. Two translations into Portuguese and two back-translations into English were performed independently and evaluated by a third researcher from the public health field. The back-translations showed good referential and connotative similarity to the original, and a consensus version was formulated. Twenty-eight women participated in the pretest, eight of whom in the focus group format. The version proved comprehensible, underwent some modifications, and is ready for the complementary stages in the cross-cultural adaptation process.