title: Cross-cultural translation of the INSPIRIT-R for Brazil and its applicability among epilepsy patients.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe the cross-cultural adaptation of the INSPIRIT-R instrument for evaluation of religious and spiritual experiences into a Brazilian Portuguese version and its applicability among epileptic patients.
  
  
  METHODS
  After the translation and back-translation phases, a multidisciplinary committee compared the back-translation with the original text in order to evaluate its content, comprehensibility, conceptual equivalence, cultural and contextual adjustment for Brazilian population. Lastly, the final version was tested on 50 long-term followed-up outpatients with a confirmed diagnosis of epilepsy in Florianópolis, SC, Brazil.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The patients' mean age was 33.7 years (18-55) and 26 (52%) were women. They had attended school for a mean of 8.0 years (3-17) years. Most of them (80%) were Catholics and 82% had a confirmed diagnosis of temporal lobe epilepsy. In the final Portuguese version, questions 3, 7C and 7E required slight modifications, along with the layout of question 7.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The Brazilian Portuguese version of the INSPIRIT-R instrument was easily understood by most of the patients, after minimal modifications.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Medicine, University Hospital, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil.
authors.forename: Isis Suga
authors.initials: IS
authors.lastname: Veronez
authors.forename: Maria Alice Horta
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Bicalho
authors.forename: Lucia Sukys
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Claudino
authors.forename: Roger
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Walz
authors.forename: Kátia
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Lin
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001938:Brazil; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D004833:Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014175:Translating; D055815:Young Adult