Translation and adaptation of the Children with Special Health Care Needs Screener to Brazilian Portuguese

This study aimed to elaborate the Brazilian version of the Children with Special Health Care Needs Screener to assess internal consistency and inter-observer agreement. The stages included translation, back-translation, expert committee review, and pretest. Participation included 140 family members...

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Published in:Cadernos de saúde pública 2016-06, Vol.32 (6)
Main Authors: Arrué, Andrea Moreira, Neves, Eliane Tatsch, Magnago, Tânia Solange Bosi de Souza, Cabral, Ivone Evangelista, Gama, Silvana Granado Nogueira da, Hökerberg, Yara Hahr Marques
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Subjects:
Brazil
Child
Child, Preschool
Cross-Cultural Comparison
Disabled Children
Humans
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Mass Screening - instrumentation
Observer Variation
Psychometrics
Reproducibility of Results
Surveys and Questionnaires
Translations
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Summary:This study aimed to elaborate the Brazilian version of the Children with Special Health Care Needs Screener to assess internal consistency and inter-observer agreement. The stages included translation, back-translation, expert committee review, and pretest. Participation included 140 family members of children 0-12 years of age at health services in southern Brazil. Reliability was assessed with kappa statistic and Cronbach's alpha. In the assessment of clarity with health professionals, 80% rated the questions very clear. Prevalence of children with special health needs was 36%. Mean time for applying the instrument was 3.5 minutes. The process identified difficulties in understanding question number two. The instrument showed satisfactory internal consistency and perfect agreement. Future research should add to the psychometric analyses of the instrument's adequacy for the Brazilian context, thereby contributing to a standardized definition of this young age group's epidemiological profile within the public health scenario in Brazil.
ISSN:1678-4464
DOI:10.1590/0102-311X00130215