title: [Cross-cultural adaptation of the Disability Assessment for Dementia (DAD)].
abstract: The original version of the Disability Assessment for Dementia (DAD) was translated into Portuguese and back translated to English. The divergences of translation were identified and discussed, resulting in a version that was used in a preliminary investigation for cross-cultural adaptation. The final version was administered to 29 patients with mild to moderate probable Alzheimer's disease. The correlation coefficients of DAD were 0.929 and 0.932 for the inter-examiner and test-retest evaluations respectively. The reliability indexes were also high (Kappa 0.72 p<0.001 inter-examiners and 0.85 p<0.001 test-retest). The Brazilian version of DAD was easy to administer and had good reliability to assess the functional status of demented patients. It will contribute to the follow-up of these patients in our population. Moreover, it can be used in transcultural studies on functional abilities in dementia.
authors.affiliation: Clínica Neurológica, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Maria Tereza
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Carthery-Goulart
authors.forename: Renata
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Areza-Fegyveres
authors.forename: Rodrigo R
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Schultz
authors.forename: Ivan
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Okamoto
authors.forename: Paulo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Caramelli
authors.forename: Paulo Henrique F
authors.initials: PH
authors.lastname: Bertolucci
authors.forename: Ricardo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Nitrini
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000175:diagnosis*; D001938:Brazil; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015588:Observer Variation; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards*; D014175:Translating