Keywords
Nursing
Validation Study
Transcultural Comparison
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Abstract
Objective: To transculturally adapt the Patient Evaluation of Emotional Comfort Experienced (PEECE) instrument to Brazilian Portuguese. Method: The transcultural adaptation procedure for the instrument was performed following the process proposed by BEATON et al. (2000) and complying with stages I to V; in other words, the processes corresponding to translation, synthesis of the translations, back-translation, assessment by an experts' committee and testing the version with patients. The research was approved by a Research Ethics Committee under Opinion No. 6,456,631. Results: All stages proposed (1 to 4) were completed (Translation, Synthesis of the translations, Back-translation and Experts' committee), obtaining good results. The experts' committee reached 83.3%-100% agreement as for semantic, idiomatic, experiential and conceptual equivalence and the content validity index was 100% for theoretical relevance, pertinence and clarity. The assessment by the patients (Stage 5) revealed that 100% of them considered the overall appearance (structure, organization of the items and their answers) as good or optimal and that 96.7% rated readability as optimal. Conclusion: The version obtained after the assessment by the experts' committee showed conceptual equivalence to the original instrument.
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