title: Cultural adaptation and validation of the "Diabetes Quality of Life for Youths" measure of Ingersoll and Marrero into Brazilian culture.
abstract: The aim of this study was to adapt the "Diabetes Quality of Life for Youths (DQOLY)" measure into Brazilian culture and to analyze its psychometric properties. The cross-cultural adaptation included the phases of translation, backtranslation, committee review, and pretesting. The adapted instrument was applied to 124 type 1 diabetes mellitus' adolescents. The reliability results showed adequate Cronbach's alpha coefficients (0.8695 for Satisfaction domain, 0.8658 for Impact, 0.8387 for Worries and 0.9333 for total), with the exclusion of 3 inconsistent items. The test-retests showed no significant difference between two instrument's applications in different periods (p>0.05). The validity was demonstrated by the strategies: content, convergent, factorial and discriminant. All subscales showed positive correlations between itselves (p<0.001) and with the adolescents' self-perception of their health status (p<0.001). The present study suggests that this version of the DQOLY is a reliable and valid measure for its use in Brazil.
authors.affiliation: tatiananovato@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Tatiana de Sá
authors.initials: Tde S
authors.lastname: Novato
authors.forename: Sonia Aurora Alves
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Grossi
authors.forename: Miako
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kimura
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001938:Brazil; D002648:Child; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011788:Quality of Life; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires