title: The cultural adaptation and validation of the "Burn Specific Health Scale-Revised" (BSHS-R): version for Brazilian burn victims.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The Burns Specific Health Scale-Revised (BSHS-R) is of easy application, can be self-administered, and it is considered a good scale to evaluate various important life aspects of burn victims.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To translate and culturally adapt the BSHS-R into the Brazilian-Portuguese language and to evaluate the internal consistency and convergent validity of the translated BSHS-R.
  
  
  METHODS
  The cultural adaptation of the BSHS-R included translation and back-translation, discussions with professionals and patients to ensure conceptual equivalence, semantic evaluation, and pre-test of the instrument. The Final Brazilian-Portuguese Version (FBPV) of the BSHS-R was tested on a group of 115 burn patients for internal consistency and validity of construct (using the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) and the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)).
  
  
  RESULTS
  All values of Cronbach's alpha were greater than .8, demonstrating that the internal consistency of the FBPV was very high. Self-esteem was highly correlated with affect and body image (r=.59, p<.001), and with interpersonal relationships (r=.51, p<.001). Correlations between the domains of the FBPV and the BDI were all negative but larger in magnitude than the correlations with RSES. Depression was highly correlated with affect and body image (r=-.77, p<.001), and with interpersonal relationships (r=-.67, p<.001).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results showed that the adapted version of the BSHS-R into Brazilian-Portuguese fulfills the validity and reliability criteria required from an instrument of health status assessment for burn patients.
authors: Head Nurse at the Burn Unit, Clinical Hospital of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, Campus of Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.
authors: Eneas
authors: E
authors: Ferreira
authors: Rosana Aparecida Spadoti
authors: RA
authors: Dantas
authors: Lidia Aparecida
authors: LA
authors: Rossi
authors: Marcia Aparecida
authors: MA
authors: Ciol
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D002056:Burns / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D003469:Culture; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D006304:Health Status; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006801:Humans; D016014:Linear Models; D011788:Quality of Life; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014175:Translating