title: Cross-cultural adaptation of the Quality of Diagnoses, Interventions and Outcomes (Q-DIO) instrument into Brazilian Portuguese.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe the cross-cultural adaptation of the Quality of Diagnoses, Interventions and Outcomes instrument into Brazilian Portuguese.
  
  
  METHODS
  This process entailed translation, synthesis, back-translation, expert committee review, and pretesting.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Six items were altered in the Brazilian version, and the scoring system was changed from a five-point to a three-point Likert-type scale. Pretesting was conducted on a sample of 40 randomly selected nursing records. Overall reliability as measured by Cronbach's alpha was 0.96.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Adaptation resulted in a preliminary version of the instrument.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Assessment of the psychometric properties of the instrument in a larger sample of nursing records is required, and such a study is underway.
authors.affiliation: Postgraduate Program of the School of Nursing at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, RS, Brazil.
authors.forename: Graciele Fernanda da Costa
authors.initials: GF
authors.lastname: Linch
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Müller-Staub
authors.forename: Maria Antonieta
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Moraes
authors.forename: Karina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Azzolin
authors.forename: Eneida Rejane
authors.initials: ER
authors.lastname: Rabelo
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001938:Brazil; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D009737:Nursing Records; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D014175:Translating