Preliminary stages of cross-cultural adaptation of the Brazilian Portuguese version of McMaster Family Assessment Device

Abstract

Objective: To carry out the preliminary stages of the cross-cultural adaptation of the Family Assessment Device (FAD) to Brazilian Portuguese language and examine its reliability. Methods: The translation and cross-cultural adaptation of the FAD were developed according to the methods internationally recommended. The resulting product was applied to 80 individuals who completed the questionnaire on two different occasions, seven days apart. Internal consistency was obtained through Cronbach's alpha, and reliability was estimated by using the Bland and Altman method.

Internal construct validity of a Brazilian version of the McMaster Family Assessment Device

“…Analysis of the internal validation of the Brazilian version containing four different dimensions, as proposed by Traebert et al 16 , presented a better solution, both in the number of dimensions and in the number of variables or questions in each of them, as compared to the original assessment tool.…”

“…Educational attainment was 14.1 years in average (SD = 4.12 years). For more methodological details see Traebert et al 16 .…”

“…One of the tools necessary for the assessment of family functioning is a self-administered questionnaire termed Family Assessment Device (FAD), which was prepared in English and adapted into multiple languages, in several countries [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] . It has already undergone the preliminary stages of a cross-cultural Brazilian Portuguese adaptation process to be used in Brazil 16 . However, the construct validity has not been performed so far.…”

“…The aim of this study was to examine the internal construct validity of a Brazilian version 16 of the Family Assessment Device (FAD) proposed by Epstein et al 1 .…”