French Versions of 2 English Questionnaires on Problematic Digital Use Assessed by Adolescents and Their Parents: Cross-Cultural Linguistic Translation and Adaptation Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The emergence of problematic digital use is increasingly alarming, affecting between 7% and 20% of the world's adolescent population. However, there is no validated questionnaire in French to measure this. Only a few questionnaires, either self-reported by adolescents or hetero-reported by parents, have been translated and validated in English.

Objective

This study aims to translate into French the Digital Addiction Scale for Children (DASC), which is self-reported by adolescents, and the Problematic Media Use Measure (PMUM), which is hetero-reported by parents of adolescents.

Methods

We used the "forward and backward" method to establish the translation and achieve cross-cultural adaptation with 8 parents and 8 adolescents aged between 12 and 17 years. The

SUBMITTER: El Boudi I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12266299 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature