Adaptation of the Multidimensional Pain Evaluation Scale: A Cross-Cultural Study
| Autor: | Rodrigo Ramon Falconi Gomez, Fátima Aparecida Emm Faleiros Sousa, Simone Saltareli, Talita de Cássia Raminelli da Silva, Lenny Chiang-Hanisko |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Cross-Cultural Comparison
Applied psychology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Cronbach's alpha Content validity medicine Cross-cultural Humans Translations 030212 general & internal medicine Equivalence (measure theory) General Nursing Pain Measurement REPRODUTIBILIDADE DE RESULTADOS Back translation Chronic pain Reproducibility of Results General Medicine medicine.disease language.human_language United States Pain evaluation language Portuguese Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Brazil |
| Zdroj: | Repositório Institucional da USP (Biblioteca Digital da Produção Intelectual) Universidade de São Paulo (USP) instacron:USP |
| ISSN: | 1945-7049 |
| Popis: | Background and PurposeInstruments to measure pain must be cross-culturally adapted through rigorous processes, so they can provide equivalence of measure regardless of the context in which they are applied. The study aim was to perform a cross-cultural adaptation of Multidimensional Pain Evaluation Scale (MPES) for use in the United States.MethodsCross-cultural adaptation study entailed translation, back translation, and review by a committee, face and content validity and pilot testing with 90 participants with acute or chronic pain from United States. The Cronbach's alpha coefficient was calculated.ResultsSome items of MPES was changed to maintain the highest level of similarity between the original scales in Portuguese and adapted to English.ConclusionThe Cronbach's alpha was high showed this scale has internal consistency and reliability. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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