Beyond translation ... cultural fit.
Reaching non-English-speaking families, the economically disadvantaged, and those who are disproportionately represented in disease and injury statistics is challenging. This article describes the process of making a questionnaire developed in English, culturally appropriate for low-income, monolingual, Mexican and Mexican American mothers. The questionnaire, guided by the Health Belief Model, assesses maternal childhood injury health beliefs and was originally used with a 96% African American, English-speaking sample in the Eastern United States. Two research assistants from the target population worked with the non-Hispanic, bilingual investigator to redesign the questionnaire's language and presentation and to collect data. Sixty monolingual Latina mothers participated in the study to determine the internal consistency of the 42-item Spanish language Maternal Childhood Injury Health Belief Questionnaire (MCIHB). Cronbach's alpha coefficients ranged from .76 (Benefits subscale) to .90 (Consequences subscale).
Hendrickson
Sherry Garrett
SG
University of Texas, Austin School of Nursing, USA.
D000069:Acculturation; D000328:Adult; D001294:Attitude to Health / Q000208:ethnology; D002648:Child; D002654:Child Care; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior / Q000208:ethnology*; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D017058:Mexican Americans / Q000523:psychology*; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D011203:Poverty / Q000208:ethnology; D011594:Psychometrics; D020377:Self Efficacy; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards*; D014175:Translating; D014481:United States; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000208:ethnology / Q000517:prevention & control