title: [Cross-cultural adaptation to Brazil of the instrument Caregiver Abuse Screen (CASE) for detection of abuse of the elderly by caregivers].
abstract: This first of two papers focuses on the first part in the cross-cultural adaptation of the Portuguese-language version of Caregiver Abuse Screen (CASE), a brief instrument for detecting domestic violence against the elderly. CASE was originally developed in Canada and used to screen violence against the elderly by interviewing their caregivers. Besides a broad literature review, the evaluation of conceptual and item equivalences involved expert discussion groups. Semantic equivalence included the following steps: two translations and respective back-translations; an evaluation of referential and general (connotative) equivalence between the original instrument and each version; further discussions with experts in order to define the final version; and pre-testing the latter in 40 caregivers of elderly subjects in an outpatient geriatric clinic. It was possible to establish high-quality conceptual, item, and semantic equivalence for the Portuguese-language version. Although the results shown here were encouraging, they should be reevaluated in light of a forthcoming psychometric analysis (measurement equivalence) to be performed by the research group.
authors: Hospital Universitário Clementino Fraga Filho, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. carlospaixaojr@openlink.com.br
authors: Carlos Montes
authors: CM
authors: Paixão
authors: Michael Eduardo
authors: ME
authors: Reichenheim
authors: Cláudia Leite
authors: CL
authors: Moraes
authors: Evandro Silva Freire
authors: ES
authors: Coutinho
authors: Renato P
authors: RP
authors: Veras
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001938:Brazil; D017028:Caregivers; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D004552:Elder Abuse / Q000175:diagnosis*; D015577:Geriatric Assessment; D006801:Humans; D012660:Semantics; D012742:Sex Offenses; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards*; D014177:Translations