title: The Bristol Stool Form Scale: its translation to Portuguese, cultural adaptation and validation.
abstract: The Bristol Stool Form Scale is used for describing feces. The objective of this research was its translation, cultural adaptation and validation for Brazil. The methodology was translation, back-translation and discussion. Validation involved 85 nurses, 80 doctors, and 80 patients, who correlated images of seven types of feces with the descriptions.
  
  
  RESULTS
  there was a difference in sex distribution, with males predominating among the doctors and females among nurses and patients. In relation to concordance between definitions and pictures, the highest percentage was in type 5 in all three groups and the lowest was in types 6 and 7 for the doctors, in type 3 for the nurses, and type 6 for the patients. The general Kappa index was 0.826.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  the scale demonstrated high reliability for all the groups studied.
authors.affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências Médicas e da Saúde, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brazil.
authors.forename: Anna Paula
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Martinez
authors.forename: Gisele Regina
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: de Azevedo
mesh_terms: D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D005243:Feces; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014177:Translations