title: [Translation and adaptation of the Children with Special Health Care Needs Screener to Brazilian Portuguese].
abstract: This study aimed to elaborate the Brazilian version of the Children with Special Health Care Needs Screener to assess internal consistency and inter-observer agreement. The stages included translation, back-translation, expert committee review, and pretest. Participation included 140 family members of children 0-12 years of age at health services in southern Brazil. Reliability was assessed with kappa statistic and Cronbach's alpha. In the assessment of clarity with health professionals, 80% rated the questions very clear. Prevalence of children with special health needs was 36%. Mean time for applying the instrument was 3.5 minutes. The process identified difficulties in understanding question number two. The instrument showed satisfactory internal consistency and perfect agreement. Future research should add to the psychometric analyses of the instrument's adequacy for the Brazilian context, thereby contributing to a standardized definition of this young age group's epidemiological profile within the public health scenario in Brazil.
authors.affiliation: Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil., Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro , Brazil.
authors.forename: Andrea Moreira
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Arrué
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Brasil., Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria , Brazil.
authors.forename: Eliane Tatsch
authors.initials: ET
authors.lastname: Neves
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Brasil., Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria , Brazil.
authors.forename: Tânia Solange Bosi de Souza
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Magnago
authors.affiliation: Escola de Enfermagem Anna Nery, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil., Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Escola de Enfermagem Anna Nery, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro , Brazil.
authors.forename: Ivone Evangelista
authors.initials: IE
authors.lastname: Cabral
authors.affiliation: Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil., Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro , Brazil.
authors.forename: Silvana Granado Nogueira da
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Gama
authors.affiliation: Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil., Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro , Brazil.
authors.forename: Yara Hahr Marques
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Hökerberg
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D019988:Children with Disabilities; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000295:instrumentation; D015588:Observer Variation; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014177:Translations