title: [Crosscultural adaptation of the pressure ulcer scale for healing to the portuguese language].
abstract: This study aimed to carry out a crosscultural adaptation of the Pressure Ulcer Scale for Healing (PUSH) to the Portuguese language through the translation of the instrument into Portuguese (by bilingual specialists and a specialist committee) and the validation of inter-rater reliability (comparison between nurses' and stomal therapists' observations) and convergent validity (correlation between pressure ulcers - PU - stages and type of tissue factor and total scale score). Besides the Kappa index, we also used Fisher's and Spearman's Tests. The Kappa indices (0.90 to 1.00) obtained for the comparison between all nurses and stomal therapists' observations for all sub-scales and for the total score and the presence of a positive and statistically significant correlation (p<0.001) between PU stages and total score for nurses and stomal therapists confirmed both scales' measuring properties, thus pointing towards the future use of the PUSH adapted version in the Portuguese culture.
authors.affiliation: Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil. veras@usp.br
authors.forename: Vera Lúcia Conceição de Gouveia
authors.initials: VL
authors.lastname: Santos
authors.forename: Maria Augusta Junqueira
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Azevedo
authors.forename: Thais Salimbeni da
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Silva
authors.forename: Vilma Maria Justo
authors.initials: VM
authors.lastname: Carvalho
authors.forename: Viviane Fernandes de
authors.initials: VF
authors.lastname: Carvalho
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D003668:Pressure Ulcer / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014945:Wound Healing