Adaptação transcultural da escala de avaliação de incapacidade em demência (Disability Assessment For Dementia - DAD)

• Autor(a) principal: Carthery-goulart, Maria Tereza
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Outros Autores: Areza-fegyveres, Renata, Schultz, Rodrigo R. [UNIFESP], Okamoto, Ivan [UNIFESP], Caramelli, Paulo, Bertolucci, Paulo Henrique Ferreira [UNIFESP], Nitrini, Ricardo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNIFESP
• dARK ID: ark:/48912/001300000hj2b
• DOI: 10.1590/S0004-282X2007000500038
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0004-282X2007000500038; http://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/3880
• topic: dementia; Alzheimer's disease; disability; activities of daily living; diagnosis; demência; doença de Alzheimer; incapacidade; atividades de vida diária; diagnóstico

The original version of the Disability Assessment for Dementia (DAD) was translated into Portuguese and back translated to English. The divergences of translation were identified and discussed, resulting in a version that was used in a preliminary investigation for cross-cultural adaptation. The final version was administered to 29 patients with mild to moderate probable Alzheimer's disease. The correlation coefficients of DAD were 0.929 and 0.932 for the inter-examiner and test-retest evaluations respectively. The reliability indexes were also high (Kappa 0.72 p<0.001 inter-examiners and 0.85 p<0.001 test-retest). The Brazilian version of DAD was easy to administer and had good reliability to assess the functional status of demented patients. It will contribute to the follow-up of these patients in our population. Moreover, it can be used in transcultural studies on functional abilities in dementia.