title: Beyond translation ... cultural fit.
abstract: 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).
authors.affiliation: University of Texas, Austin School of Nursing, USA.
authors.forename: Sherry Garrett
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Hendrickson
mesh_terms: 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