Assessment of Psycho-Education of Carers Questionnaire: APEC-U" translation and cross cultural adaptation of an Urdu Version

Psycho-education of carers is a part of good mental health practice. Our objective was to translate and validate the English questionnaire "Assessment of Psycho-Education of Carers" (APEC) into Urdu (APEC-U), for use in Pakistan. Following development and validation of APEC, it was transla...

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Published in:Pakistan journal of medical sciences 2019-08, Vol.35 (4), p.1045-1049
Main Authors: Haider, Imran Ijaz, Tiwana, Farah, Zohra, Noor, Rehman, Khaleeq Ur
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adaptation
Analysis
Blindness
Committees
Dentistry
Education
Educational assessment
Information sources
Language
Medical research
Medical schools
Mental disorders
Mental health
Mental health care
Original
Patients
Public health
Questionnaires
Recurrence (Disease)
Researchers
Surveys
Translations
Urdu language
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Summary:Psycho-education of carers is a part of good mental health practice. Our objective was to translate and validate the English questionnaire "Assessment of Psycho-Education of Carers" (APEC) into Urdu (APEC-U), for use in Pakistan. Following development and validation of APEC, it was translated into Urdu after consultation with experts and translators. After pretesting, one hundred and twenty bilingual male 67(55.8%) and female 53(44.2%) primary carers, who could understand both Urdu and English, and were carers for more than three months, were asked to fill in the self reporting Urdu questionnaire at the Fatima Memorial Hospital Psychiatry Out-Patient Department. The data were collected over a period of three months from September, 2018 to November, 2018. Responses were analyzed for internal consistency, reliability, Intraclass correlation coefficients and kappa statistics. APEC-U was understandable and capable of assessing psycho-education in Urdu. High internal consistency was demonstrated on the full scale as 0.859. Degree of agreement (
ISSN:1682-024X
1681-715X
DOI:10.12669/pjms.35.4.661