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abstract: BACKGROUND
  The Rehabilitation Network of Ottawa-Carleton (RENOC) recommends that its institutions use the Lower Extremity Functional Scale (LEFS). Since RENOC serves both Francophone and Anglophone clients, the LEFS needed to be translated to assess the Francophone clientele.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To create a French-Canadian version of the LEFS, with the proposed title "Échelle fonctionnelle des membres inférieurs" (ÉFMI), and to examine its content validity.
  
  
  METHODS
  A modified version of Vallerand's (1989) cross-validation technique for questionnaires was used to validate the equivalence of the French version of the LEFS. First, a parallel reverse translation of the LEFS was completed. Second, a committee of experts examined the two drafts and created a first experimental version of the ÉFMI. Third, this version was evaluated by a second committee of experts. Following the comments received, a second experimental version was created. Fourth, 35 rehabilitation professionals evaluated the second experimental version of the ÉFMI on a scale of ambiguity and proposed final changes.
  
  
  RESULTS
  On the final version of the ÉFMI, the statements demonstrated a relatively low average level of ambiguity, ranging between 1 and 2.54.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The rigorous four-step process followed in this study produced a French-Canadian version of the LEFS with demonstrated content validity.
authors.affiliation: Frédéric René, MIng :  Professeur remplaçant, Programme de Physiothérapie, École des Sciences de la réadaptation, Université d'Ottawa, Ottawa (Ontario).
authors.forename: Frédéric
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: René
authors.forename: Lynn
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Casimiro
authors.forename: Manon
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tremblay
authors.forename: Lucie
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Brosseau
authors.forename: Annabelle
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lefebvre
authors.forename: Martine
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Beaudouin
authors.forename: Véronik
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Belliveau
authors.forename: Louis-Philippe
authors.initials: LP
authors.lastname: Bergeron
mesh_terms: D002170:Canada; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014175:Translating; D014177:Translations