title: Cross-cultural cultural adaptation of the "Nursing Students' Attitudes Toward Mental Health Nursing and Consumers" in Brazil.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to make across-cultural adaptation of the "Nursing Students' Attitudes Toward Mental Health Nursing and Consumers" scale in Brazil.
  
  
  METHODS
  the scale was tested regarding conceptual, item, semantic, and operational equivalence.
  
  
  RESULTS
  content validation was conducted by an expert committee with a minimum consensus level of 80%. This process resulted in a 35-item scale divided into 6 factors. The experts reached 100% consensus on the scale's clarity of language, practical pertinence and theoretical relevance, as well as on the need for excluding one factor. Data were collected in 2013 in the city of Londrina, Paraná, Brazil.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  the instrument was cross-culturally adapted to Brazilian Portuguese and presented satisfactory content validity. We propose further studies on the scale's psychometric properties, such as construct validity, internal consistency and reliability.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem, Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, PR, Brasil.
authors.forename: Marcos Hirata
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Soares
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem Psiquiátrica e Ciências Humanas, Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brasil.
authors.forename: Margarita Antonia Villar
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Luís
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem, Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, PR, Brasil.
authors.forename: Andréia Gonçalves Pestana
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Hirata
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D001294:Attitude to Health; D001938:Brazil; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008603:Mental Health; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing; D057566:Self Report; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*