The linguistic validation of the gut feelings questionnaire in three European languages.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Physicians' clinical decision-making may be influenced by non-analytical thinking, especially when perceiving uncertainty. Incidental gut feelings in general practice have been described, namely, as "a sense of alarm" and "a sense of reassurance". A Dutch Gut Feelings Questionnaire (GFQ) was developed, validated and afterwards translated into English following a linguistic validation procedure. The aims were to translate the GFQ from English into French, German and Polish; to describe uniform elements as well as differences and difficulties in the linguistic validation processes; to propose a procedural scheme for future GFQ translations into other languages.

Methods

We followed a structured, similar and equivalent procedure. Forward and backward-translations, rep

SUBMITTER: Barais M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5437565 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature