title: Translation, Cross-Cultural Adaptation, and Validation of the Parkinson's Disease Quality of Life Questionnaire (PDQL), the "PDQL-BR", into Brazilian Portuguese.
abstract: Translate, culturally adapt, and validate the "Parkinson's Disease Quality of Life" (PDQL) BR, into Brazilian Portuguese. Fifty-two patients answered the PDQL-BR. Twenty-one patients answered the PDQL-BR again 14 days later. The UPDRS and HY scale was applied. Validation was evaluated using psychometric properties, checking the quality of the data, reliability, and validity. Quality of the data was evaluated based on occurrence of ceiling and floor effects. Reliability was evaluated based on: internal consistency of an item, homogeneity, and reproducibility. Validation was checked through the evaluation of convergent and discriminatory validation. There was no ceiling and floor effect. When evaluating reliability, items 20, 30, and 37 showed correlation of 0.34, 0.26, and 0.37, respectively, to your scale; the other items was higher than 0.4. The alpha Cronbach coefficient was higher than 0.7 for most domains. There was good reproducibility. There were no meaningful changes in the PDQL-BR translation and cross-cultural adaptation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Post Graduate Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Federal University of Uberlandia, Avenue Pará No. 1720, 38405-320 Uberlandia, MG, Brazil.
authors.forename: Marcos
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Campos
authors.forename: Carlos Henrique A
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: de Rezende
authors.forename: Virgilio da C
authors.initials: Vda C
authors.lastname: Farnese
authors.forename: Carlos Henrique M
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: da Silva
authors.forename: Nívea Macedo de O
authors.initials: NM
authors.lastname: Morales
authors.forename: Rogério de Melo C
authors.initials: Rde M
authors.lastname: Pinto