Cross-cultural adaptation and patients' judgments of a question prompt list for Italian-speaking cancer patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Question Prompt Lists (QPLs) have proven very effective in encouraging cancer patients to ask questions, allowing them to take up a more active role during visits with the oncologist. As no such tool has yet been validated for Italian-speaking users, we carried out the cross-cultural adaptation and evaluation of an existing Australian Question Prompt List.

Methods

Cross-cultural adaptation was performed in accordance with the five steps described by Guillemin and Beaton. Forward and back translations of the original tool were carried out, and the products discussed by an Expert Committee who agreed on a prefinal version of the Italian QPL, which was submitted to 30 volunteer patients for evaluation. They rated each question's adequacy of content, clarity of wordin

SUBMITTER: Caminiti C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2821383 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature