[Cross-cultural adaptation to Brazil of the instrument Caregiver Abuse Screen (CASE) for detection of abuse of the elderly by caregivers].
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.
Paixão
Carlos Montes
CM
Hospital Universitário Clementino Fraga Filho, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. carlospaixaojr@openlink.com.br
Reichenheim
Michael Eduardo
ME
Moraes
Cláudia Leite
CL
Coutinho
Evandro Silva Freire
ES
Veras
Renato P
RP
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