Cross-cultural adaptation into portuguese of the Dynamic Occupational Therapy Cognitive Assessment for Children (DOTCA-Ch)

• Autor(a) principal: Uchôa-Figueiredo, Lúcia da Rocha [UNIFESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Lima, Fernanda Felício de [UNIFESP], Mendes, Renata Souza [UNIFESP], Marques, Nataly Cristina Fachinetti [UNIFESP], Matteuci, Mariana [UNIFESP], Almada, Heloisa Sbrissa [UNIFESP], Novelli, Marcia Maria Pires Camargo [UNIFESP], Katz, Noomi
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNIFESP
• Texto Completo: https://dx.doi.org/10.4322/0104-4931.ctoAO0827; https://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/55500
• topic: Occupational Therapy; Cognition; Validation Studies; Terapia Ocupacional; Cognição; Estudos de Validação

Introduction: The DOTCA-Ch Battery (Dynamic Occupational Therapy Cognitive Assessment for Children) is a specific assessment tool for occupational therapists (O.T.). The battery evaluates the cognitive performance of 6- to 12-year-old children, from 22 dynamic subtests distributed in five cognitive areas: Orientation, Spatial Perception, Praxis, Visuomotor Construction and Thinking Operations. Objective: To demonstrate how the cross-cultural adaptation process of the DOTCA-Ch Battery into Portuguese took place. Method: The DOTCA-Ch Battery was translated and adapted according to a rigorous methodology that proposes the translation, back-translation, and Conceptual, Cultural, Idiomatic and Semantic equivalence evaluation by a committee of experts and through a following pre-test. Results: The DOTCA-Ch Battery was translated and adapted for Brazilian Portuguese and back-translated to the original language. After that, a committee of five experts evaluated 375 items in order to assess the equivalences, taking into consideration the target population and the cultural context of Brazil. In the