title: The McGill Illness Narrative Interview - MINI: translation and cross-cultural adaptation into Portuguese.
abstract: This paper presents the process of translation and cultural adaptation into Portuguese of the McGill Illness Narrative Interview - MINI, an interview protocol that is used to research meanings and modes of narrating illness experiences, tested, in the Brazilian context, for psychiatric and cancer-related problems. Two translations and their respective back-translations were developed. In addition, semantic equivalence was evaluated, a synthesis version and a final version were prepared, and two pre-tests were administered to the target populations (people with auditory verbal hallucinations or breast cancer). A high degree of semantic equivalence was found between the original instrument and the translation/back-translation pairs, and also in the perspective of referential and general meanings. The semantic and operational equivalence of the proposed modifications was confirmed in the pre-tests. Therefore, the first adaptation of an interview protocol that elicits the production of narratives about illness experiences has been provided for the Brazilian context.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Medicina de Família e Comunidade, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). R. Laura de Araújo 36/2º, Cidade Nova. 20211-170 Rio de Janeiro RJ Brasil. eroleal@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Erotildes Maria
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Leal
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Psiquiatria e Medicina Legal, Faculdade de Medicina, UFRJ. Rio de Janeiro RJ Brasil.
authors.forename: Alicia Navarro de
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Souza
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Psiquiatria, UFRJ. Rio de Janeiro RJ Brasil.
authors.forename: Octavio Domont de
authors.initials: OD
authors.lastname: Serpa
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Medicina de Família e Comunidade, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). R. Laura de Araújo 36/2º, Cidade Nova. 20211-170 Rio de Janeiro RJ Brasil. eroleal@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Iraneide Castro de
authors.initials: IC
authors.lastname: Oliveira
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Medicina de Família e Comunidade, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). R. Laura de Araújo 36/2º, Cidade Nova. 20211-170 Rio de Janeiro RJ Brasil. eroleal@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Catarina Magalhães
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Dahl
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Medicina de Família e Comunidade, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). R. Laura de Araújo 36/2º, Cidade Nova. 20211-170 Rio de Janeiro RJ Brasil. eroleal@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Ana Cristina
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Figueiredo
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Psiquiatria, UFRJ. Rio de Janeiro RJ Brasil.
authors.forename: Samantha
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Salem
authors.affiliation: Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University. Montreal Canadá.
authors.forename: Danielle
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Groleau
mesh_terms: D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D033262:Narration; D014177:Translations