Translation, cross-cultural adaptation, and validation of the Leuven Knowledge Questionnaire for congenital heart disease instrument into Brazilian Portuguese.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To translate the Leuven Knowledge Questionnaire for Congenital Heart Disease into Brazilian Portuguese and to validate its psychometric properties with parents and family caregivers of children with congenital heart disease.

Method

This was a six-step methodological study, including the translation, synthesis, back-translation, evaluation of the version translated by the committee of experts, pre-testing, and validation, for which two pilot tests were used including the think-aloud protocol. The content validity index and the frequency of socioeconomic data were calculated in a statistical programming environment.

Results

In content validation, the instrument showed good applicability among experts, with average content validity index of 0.8-1, while kappa a

SUBMITTER: Cecchetto FH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9432303 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul-Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature