Cultural adaptation of the health communication assessment tool to portuguese language, Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Reis, Nélida Beatriz Caldas dos
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Góes, Fernanda Santos Nogueira, Aredes, Natália Del'Angelo, Campbell, Suzanne Hetzel
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: RECIIS (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://www.reciis.icict.fiocruz.br/index.php/reciis/article/view/1501
• topic: Nursing education; Health Communication; Patient safety; Training by simulation; Validation studies.; Educación en enfermería; Comunicación en Salud; Seguridad del paciente; Entrenamiento a través de simulación; Estudios de validación.; Educação em enfermagem; Comunicação em Saúde; Segurança do paciente; Treinamento por simulação; Estudos de validação.

This study aims to describe the process of cultural adaptation of the Health Communication Assessment Tool (HCAT) to Brazil. The HCAT is a scale that evaluates communication behaviors in clinical simulation. We developed a methodological research in an institution of higher education through the following stages: translation of the tool from English into Portuguese; evaluation by a committee of judges; back-translation; and semantic evaluation. All stages of the cultural adaptation process were rigorously developed ensuring semantic, idiomatic, cultural and conceptual equivalence between the original and the Brazilian version, in addition to a concordance of more than 70% of the nursing teachers who were invited to collaborate in evaluation. They are from three Brazilian regions – Northeast, Southeast and South – and participated in the last stage, namely semantic evaluation. It was concluded that the Brazilian version of the HCAT was culturally adapted and it will be a good tool to assess the communication skills of nursing students in a scenario of clinical simulation.