Adaptation for portuguese and reliability of a modified version of the Physical Performance Test

• Autor(a) principal: Mitre,Natália Corradi Drumond
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Outros Autores: Dias,Rosângela Corrêa, Dias,João Marcos Domingues, Faria,Ana Paula Santos, Costa,Dulce Cornélio da, Carvalho,Gisele Marques de, Ribeiro,Ana Carolina Pinto
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Geriatrics, Gerontology and Aging (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://ggaging.com/details/328
• topic: Linguistic adaptation, reliability, Physical Performance Test, elderly.

<p><b>OBJECTIVES:</b> To translate into Portuguese a modified version of the Physical Performance Test and to assess its internal consistency and intra- and inter-examiner reliability in the community-dwelling Brazilian elderly population.<br> <b>MATERIAL AND METHODS:</b> The linguistic adaptation followed these steps: translation into Portuguese, back translation into English, assessment of the translation by an expert committee and pilot study. With the final version of the instrument inter and intra-examiner reliability was assessed.<br> <b>RESULTS:</b> Thirty participants were assessed. In the process of translation and adaptation, only for the item 8 was inserted the number of stairs (10) that corresponds to a one flight No other doubt on understanding occurred related to the remaining items. Intra and inter-examiners reliability were calculated by intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) with values of 0.81(IC95% 0.51; 0.93) and 0.86 (IC95% 0.63; 0,95), respectively; with Cronbachs alpha of 0.89 and 0.92, respectively. Paired T-tests yielded no statistically significant results for intra and inter-examiner test-retest (p &gt; 0.05).<br> <b>CONCLUSION:</b> The modified version of the Physical Performance Test was translated into Portuguese and adapted for its use in the Brazilian community-dwelling elderly with adequate levels of internal consistency and reliability.</p>