title: Cultural adaptation of the Family Management Measure among families of children and adolescents with chronic diseases.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to perform the cultural adaptation of the Family Management Measure into the Brazilian Portuguese language.
  
  
  METHODS
  the method complied with international recommendations for this type of study and was composed of the following steps: translation of the instrument into the Portuguese language; reaching consensus over the translated versions; assessment by an expert committee; back translation; and pretest.
  
  
  RESULTS
  these stages enabled us to obtain conceptual, by-item, semantic, idiomatic, and operational equivalences, in addition to content validation.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  the Family Management Measure is adapted to the Brazilian Portuguese language and that version is named Instrumento de Medida de Manejo Familiar.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Centro de Ciências da Saúde, LondrinaPR, Brazil, MSc, Assistant Professor, Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, PR, Brazil.
authors.forename: Carolliny Rossi de Faria
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Ichikawa
authors.affiliation: Universidade de São Paulo, Escola de Enfermagem, São PauloSP, Brazil, PhD, Associate Professor, Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Regina Szylit
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Bousso
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal de São Carlos, São Carlos, Brazil, PhD, Professor, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, São Carlos, Brazil.
authors.forename: Maira Deguer
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Misko
authors.affiliation: Universidade de São Paulo, Escola de Enfermagem, SP, Brazil, Post-doctoral fellow, Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade de São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Ana Marcia Chiaradia
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Mendes-Castillo
authors.affiliation: Universidade de São Paulo, Escola de Enfermagem, São PauloSP, Brazil, PhD, Associate Professor, Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Estela Regina Ferraz
authors.initials: ER
authors.lastname: Bianchi
authors.affiliation: Universidade de São Paulo, Escola de Enfermagem, São PauloSP, Brazil, PhD, Professor, Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Elaine Buchhorn Cintra
authors.initials: EB
authors.lastname: Damião
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000451:nursing; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014177:Translations