title: Preliminary stages of a cross-cultural Brazilian Portuguese adaptation of a measurement tool for assessing public understanding of human papillomavirus.
abstract: The objective of this study was to conduct the initial stages of the cross-cultural adaptation to Brazilian Portuguese of a scale to measure the level of knowledge about HPV. The stages included: translation from English into the Portuguese spoken in Brazil; synthesis of the translated version; back-translation; analysis by an expert committee; and reliability analysis based on internal consistency and reproducibility. Cronbach's α coefficient for the instrument was 0.985. Subset analysis produced only minor variations. The correlation coefficients between the individual items and the overall result showed strong positive correlations, except for three items. Reproducibility analysis showed kappa values with substantial or moderate agreement for the majority of the items. A preliminary Brazilian version was obtained with satisfactory results, but other stages are necessary in the process of validation of the Brazilian version.
authors.affiliation: Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina, Tubarão, Brasil.
authors.forename: André Luciano
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Manoel
authors.affiliation: Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina, Tubarão, Brasil.
authors.forename: Jefferson
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Traebert
authors.affiliation: Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina, Tubarão, Brasil.
authors.forename: Luísa Correa
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Rebello
authors.affiliation: Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina, Tubarão, Brasil.
authors.forename: Clávison Martinelli
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Zapelini
authors.affiliation: Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina, Tubarão, Brasil.|Centro de Pesquisas Clínicas, Hospital Nossa Senhora da Conceição, Tubarão, Brasil.
authors.forename: Daisson José
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Trevisol
authors.affiliation: Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina, Tubarão, Brasil.|Centro de Pesquisas Clínicas, Hospital Nossa Senhora da Conceição, Tubarão, Brasil.
authors.forename: Fabiana
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Schuelter-Trevisol
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D027383:Papillomaviridae; D010290:Parents; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014177:Translations