Spanish Language Translation and Initial Validation of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy Quality-of-Life Instrument

Abstract

The Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General and five disease-specific subscales have been translated successfully into Spanish using a thorough translation and initial validation methodology. The methods and data provide a model for preparing a health status questionnaire for cross-cultural validation. The questionnaire is available for use in clinical trials and clinical practice.

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“…The psychometrics of the Short Acculturation Scale (SAS), a four-item Spanish language usage scale, have previously been tested with Puerto Rican and Mexican American adolescents. Results from previous studies support the use of this four-item measure of acculturation as a simple, inexpensive measure that involves minimal respondent burden (4,5). This study supports the use of the SAS as a measure of acculturation among Central American Latina women.…”

Translation and validation of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy–Bone Marrow Transplant (FACT-BMT) Version 4 quality of life instrument into traditional Chinese

“…[10][11][12] The FACT-BMT was initially translated and validated in Spanish, 13 Dutch, French, German, Italian, Norwegian and Swedish, 14 and subsequently translated into Japanese, Portuguese and Russian. 15 The FACT-G Version 3 was translated into traditional Chinese and tested by Yu et al 16 between 1996 and 1999.…”

La Validación Lingüística en los Principales Cuestionarios de Salud y Calidad de Vida

“…(1) equivalencia semántica, designada como semantic equivalence (Hunt, 1986;Esteve-Vives et al, 1991;Hunt y Mckenna, 1992;Guillemin et al, 1993;Sartorius y Kuyken, 1994;Guarnaccia, 1996;Gaite et al, 1997;Herdman et al, 1998;Cella et al, 1998;Knudsen et al, 2000;Behling y Law, 2000;Skevington, 2002;Hilton y Skrutkowski, 2002;Massoubre et al, 2002;Beck et al, 2003;Matías-Carrelo et al, 2003); functional equivalence (Bullinger, 1995) o conceptual equivalence (Leplège y Verdier, 1995;Anderson et al, 1996); (2) equivalencia idiomática (idiomatic equivalence) (Sechrest et al, 1972;Guillemin et al, 1993;Beaton et al, 2000;Massoubre et al, 2002;Falcão et al, 2003); o (3) equivalencia de las características "técnicas" de la lengua (technical equivalence), es decir, la morfosintaxis, la ortografía, los signos de puntuación, etc. (Alonso y Antó, 1990;Esteve-Vives et al, 1991;Sartorius y Kuyken, 1994;Gaite et al, 1997;Knudsen et al, 2000, Corless et al, 2001Massoubre et al, 2002;Matías-Carrelo et al, 2003;Valderas et al, 2005).…”

“…(2) equivalencia de los ítems (item equivalence) (Herdman et al, 1998); (3) equivalencia de contenido (content equivalence) (Guarnaccia, 1996;Cella et al, 1998;Hilton y Skrutkowski, 2002;Beck et al, 2003;Matías-Carrelo et al, 2003); (4) equivalencia ligada a la experiencia (experiential equivalence, èquivalence liée à l'expèrience) (Sechrest et al, 1972;Guillemin et al, 1993;Beaton et al, 2000;Massoubre et al, 2002); o (5) equivalencia normativa (normative equivalence) (Law, 2000).…”