Objective A methodological study aimed at performing the cultural adaptation of the Child Feeding Questionnaire for its use in Brazil. Methods We collected data in a city in the northeastern region of the state of São Paulo, between March and September 2018; seven judges assessed its language standardization, and 85 parents of preschool children performed the cultural adaptation. Results The judges’ agreement level was above 80% for 54 of the 55 statements in the questionnaire. For the parents, the questionnaire is very good, they had no difficulties in using it; most of them understood the affirmative sentences and all parents considered the questionnaire important for the knowledge of child´s healthy eating. We estimated the internal consistency by considering the Kuder-Richardson coefficient for dichotomous variables, and the correlation of each item with the total score was also sought. The results showed values between 0.72 and 0.76, indicating a good consistency, which confirms the reliability of the Brazilian version of the questionnaire. Conclusions The Child Feeding Questionnaire was culturally adapted, aided by the parents. Future studies must be conducted in other Brazilian realities to allow the questionnaire to be widely used. It contributes to promoting the implementation of better practices in child feeding that favor healthy growth and development, as well as to encourage healthy habits in Brazilian families, and to reduce overweight and childhood obesity in the country.

In order to compose childcare actions, National Policy for Comprehensive Child Health Care, in its strategic axis II -Breastfeeding and Complementary Healthy Eating -advocates adequate nutrition and access to safe and nutritious food as a child's right to achieve high standards of health. By considering the importance of offering healthy food for growth and development of Brazilian children, scientific evidence about the need to promote beneficial lifestyle habits and the absence of validated national instruments that investigate parents' knowledge about their children's healthy eating, this study had the objective of carrying out the cultural adaptation, in Brazil, of the Infant Feeding Questionnaire (IFQ), for use with parents of children of preschool age. A methodological study was carried out in a medium-sized municipality in the northeast of São Paulo between March and September 2018.To reach the objective, we go through the steps proposed by referential that involved idiomatic standardization of the instrument; expert committee review; retro translation; patient panel; adapted version of the instrument and pilot test. We also performed language standardization in order to maintain understanding of the instrument when culturally adapted in the same language but in different countries. Two Portuguese-speaking professionals evaluated this version and resulting in two versions, which was later synthesized in a single one. The Committee of experts consisted of seven professionals who validated this version with agreement above 80% for 54 of the 55 statements of the IFQ.We accepted the changes because they did not interfere with the IFQ and we obtained the author's approval. Back translation was performed, also with necessary changes to the Brazilian reality and after authorization by the author. For the semantic validation, 30 parents (panel of patients) of children of children enrolled in Child Living Centers (CLC) answered items from the IFQ, which was subdivided into five groups of 11 statements each. Understanding of all items was verified, except for one that is not part of the Brazilian reality; also changed with permission of the author, resulting in the adapted version. Then, we conducted a pilot study with 55 parents from other CLC; they pointed out true or false for all 55 statements in the IFQ.For analysis we used the Kuder-Richardson coefficient (KR20) and a correlation between the items and the total was found with truth for values greater than 0.7. From the semantic validation, we identified percentages above 92% for good compression of the IFQ items. The results of the pilot study indicated values between 0.72 and 0.76 for the 55 questionnaire items. This demonstrated good consistency, which confirms the reliability of the Brazilian version.The culturally adapted version of the IFQ in Brazil is reliable and valid for assessing parent's knowledge of healthy eating in preschool children. Its use has the potential to contribute whit professionals who work with children in this age group and to enable...

Introduction: The objective was to propose a Portuguese version of the Objective and Subjective Knowledge and HIV Testing Scale (OSK-HIV-TS), to assess content validity and to perform analysis of items when applied to a sample of undergraduate students. Methods: Three translators translated the OSK-HIV-TS into Portuguese. Judges evaluated each item of the consensual version of the translated instrument according to semantic, idiomatic, cultural, and conceptual equivalences. A consensus committee reviewed the back-translated and original versions of the OSK-HIV-TS. Content validity was calculated by content validity index and analysis of items conducted using Classical Test Theory (CTT). Results: The translated scale presented semantic, idiomatic, conceptual, and cultural equivalence in relation to the original version. A total of 491 undergraduate students participated and a high proportion of right answers was observed on the distribution of students' responses to the OSK-HIV-TS. All items were classified as easy or very Trends Psychiatry Psychother -Pre-Proof -http://doi.org/10.47626/2237-6089-2022-0519 easy and only the item 16 was classified as strong according to discrimination index. Conclusion:The OSK-HIV-TS is a novel instrument for assessing HIV knowledge in Brazilian literature that can inspire more research on HIV/AIDS behavior and associated factors, which, despite being essential and necessary, are still lacking in the Brazilian literature.