Integrated Palliative Outcome Scale for People with Dementia: easy language adaption and translation.

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Background

In this article, we report the cultural adaption and translation of the Integrated Palliative Care Outcome Scale for People with Dementia (IPOS-Dem) into a Swiss-German easy language version for proxy assessment of people with dementia living in Swiss nursing homes. The Swiss-German easy language version of the IPOS-Dem was developed and culturally adapted in a six-phase process from the German IPOS-Dem using recommended guidelines. With nursing home staff and laypeople, the conceptual definition and relevance of IPOS-Dem items were established during phase I. Phase II encompassed the completion of forward translations. Independent native speakers blind to the original scale translated and back-translated the Swiss-German easy language version. The resulting IPOS-Dem ver

SUBMITTER: Spichiger F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8847462 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature