title: [Morse Fall Scale: translation and transcultural adaptation for the Portuguese language].
abstract: The study aimed to translate and adapt the Morse Fall Scale from English into the Portuguese language. This was performed in seven steps: authorization by the author of the scale; translation into Portuguese; evaluation and structuring of the translated scale; reverse translation into English; evaluation and validation of the scale by a committee of experts; evaluation of clarity of items and operational definitions with 45 professionals; evaluation of agreement between raters and the reliability of reproducibility, related to data from the evaluation of 90 patients, performed by four evaluators/judges. The clarity of the scale was considered very satisfactory, with a confidence interval of 73.0% to 100% in the option very clear. For the concordance of responses, the results showed Kappa coefficients of approximately 0.80 or higher. It was concluded that the adaptation of the scale was successful, indicating that its use is appropriate for the population of Brazilian patients.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil. jurbanetto@pucrs.br
authors.forename: Janete Souza
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: de Urbanetto
authors.affiliation: Doutora em Gerontologia pela Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil.
authors.forename: Marion
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Creutzberg
authors.affiliation: Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil.
authors.forename: Flávia
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Franz
authors.affiliation: Psicologia pela Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Professora do Curse de Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil.
authors.forename: Beatriz Sebben
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Ojeda
authors.affiliation: Epidemiologia pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil.
authors.forename: Andreia Silva
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: da Gustavo
authors.affiliation: Geografia pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil.
authors.forename: Hélio Radke
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Bittencourt
authors.affiliation: Graduanda de Enfermagem da Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil.
authors.forename: Quézia Lidiane
authors.initials: QL
authors.lastname: Steinmetz
authors.affiliation: Graduanda de Enfermagem da Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil.
authors.forename: Veronica Alacarini
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Farina
mesh_terms: D000058:Accidental Falls; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014177:Translations