Cross-cultural adaptation of the stroke action test for Italian--speaking people.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Assessing the level of public stroke awareness is a prerequisite for development of community educational campaigns aimed at reducing prehospital delay of stroke patients. The Stroke Action Test (STAT) is a validated instrument specifically developed in the United States with the objective to assess the public's readiness to respond to stroke. Our purpose was to perform the cross-cultural adaptation of the original version of STAT to be applied to the Italian population.

Methods

The process of cross-cultural adaptation has been performed according to guidelines, intended for questionnaires of self-report health status measures, following five steps: forward translation, synthesis, back translation, approval by an Expert Committee and test of the pre-final version.

SUBMITTER: Denti L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4428500 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature