title: Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the instrument Diabetes - 39 (D-39): brazilian version for type 2 diabetes mellitus patients - stage 1.
abstract: The study aimed to accomplish a cross-cultural adaptation of the 'Diabetes - 39 - D-39' instrument for Brazil, to test the validity of the adapted version in a sample of type 2 diabetes mellitus patients and to describe the participants of the study, according to the scores obtained on the Likert-type scale. The instrument adaptation process followed several steps: instrument translation; achievement of the consensus in Portuguese; evaluation by an expert committee; back-translation; achievement of the consensus in English; comparison of the original and consensus versions in English; semantic analysis and pre-test of the Portuguese version. Results showed that the instrument items, in the first stage of cultural adaptation to Portuguese, presented high internal consistency levels.
authors: Universidade de São Paulo, WHO Collaborating Centre for Nursing Research Development, Brazil. fallqnurse@yahoo.com.br
authors: Flávia Alline de
authors: FA
authors: Queiroz
authors: Ana Emilia
authors: AE
authors: Pace
authors: Claudia Benedita dos
authors: CB
authors: Santos
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D011788:Quality of Life; D015203:Reproducibility of Results