Test adaptation

Hedrih, Vladimir

doi:10.4324/9780429264788-3

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“…The identification of reasons for the different functioning of an adapted or validated version of a given measurement instrument can lead researchers to consider the possibility of bias during the process of translation, adaptation and cross-cultural validation. 22 To check this possibility, researchers need to ensure that the process is traceable with records in each stage. 21 Those records allow, for example, that researchers verify that the low relevance of a particular item is not associated with any type of bias and may, as a result, be modified or excluded before the psychometric validation of the measurement instrument.…”

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“…Forward translators should also make suggestions for items in the culture in which the instrument is to be adapted, even if the item is left with a different meaning from the original. 22 For example, translators can suggest replacing the terms “nursing assistants” and “advanced practice nurses”, respectively, by “auxiliary staff”, and “specialist nurses”, in the countries where these categories do not exist. In addition to being bicultural, some methodological approaches recommend only using professional translators.…”

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“…Bilingual translators in the process of cross-cultural adaptation are individuals who have a full command of both the “target language” and the “original language”. 22 Translation involves converting a document from the “source language” to the “target language”, considering the target audience, target culture, and the skopos (brief or communicative purpose). 23 In the case of translating health instruments, this encompasses factors such as accuracy, fluency, and conceptual equivalence, but also, as argued by Montalt & Davies, 24 the ethical priority of “cultural relevance”, while cross-cultural adaptation comprises the identification of differences between the “source culture” and the “target culture” to maintain the equivalence of concepts.…”

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“… 6 Dual-Focus involves replacing items or parts of items with more appropriate ones in the “target language” in order to mitigate the difficulty of adapting certain content from the “source culture”. 22 It allows us to scrutinize what each of the items in the “original version” of the instrument seeks to assess in the light of the operational definition of the construct we want to measure, and thus, ensure that we are concerned with content validity. 76 Several studies have reported the substitution of words and items as a result of using Dual-Focus.…”

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Translation, Cross-Cultural Adaptation, and Validation of Measurement Instruments: A Practical Guideline for Novice Researchers

Cruchinho,

López-Franco,

Capelas

et al. 2024

JMDH

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Cross-cultural validation of self-reported measurement instruments for research is a long and complex process, which involves specific risks of bias that could affect the research process and results. Furthermore, it requires researchers to have a wide range of technical knowledge about the translation, adaptation and pre-test aspects, their purposes and options, about the different psychometric properties, and the required evidence for their assessment and knowledge about the quantitative data processing and analysis using statistical software. This article aimed: 1) identify all guidelines and recommendations for translation, cross-cultural adaptation, and validation within the healthcare sciences; 2) describe the methodological approaches established in these guidelines for conducting translation, adaptation, and cross-cultural validation; and 3) provide a practical guideline featuring various methodological options for novice researchers involved in translating, adapting, and validating measurement instruments. Forty-two guidelines on translation, adaptation, or cross-cultural validation of measurement instruments were obtained from “CINAHL with Full Text” (via EBSCO) and “MEDLINE with Full Text”. A content analysis was conducted to identify the similarities and differences in the methodological approaches recommended. Bases on these similarities and differences, we proposed an eight-step guideline that includes: a) forward translation; 2) synthesis of translations; 3) back translation; 4) harmonization; 5) pre-testing; 6) field testing; 7) psychometric validation, and 8) analysis of psychometric properties. It is a practical guideline because it provides extensive and comprehensive information on the methodological approaches available to researchers. This is the first methodological literature review carried out in the healthcare sciences regarding the methodological approaches recommended by existing guidelines.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Translation, Cross-Cultural Adaptation, and Validation of Measurement Instruments: A Practical Guideline for Novice Researchers

Cruchinho,

López-Franco,

Capelas

et al. 2024

JMDH

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“…Dual focus may involve replacing items or parts of items with more appropriate ones in the target language in order to mitigate the difficulty of adapting certain content from the source culture. 54 …”

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Evaluating the Methodological Approaches of Cross-Cultural Adaptation of the Bedside Handover Attitudes and Behaviours Questionnaire into Portuguese

Cruchinho,

Teixeira,

Lucas

et al. 2023

JHL

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Nurse managers need culturally adapted assessment instruments to support the implementation of change to Nursing Bedside Handover (NBH) in healthcare institutions. This study aimed to cross-culturally adapt the Bedside Handover Attitudes and Behaviours (BHAB) questionnaire to the Portuguese context and evaluate the methodological approaches used for this purpose. To guide this study, we followed a guideline for cross-cultural translation and adaptation measurement instruments in healthcare. The results of the content validity testing suggested that the BHAB questionnaire is a valid instrument for use in the Portuguese context. To obtain these results we showed 1) using of a new methodological approach, the dual focus, to resolve the divergences and ambiguities in the translators’ committee and the multi-professional committee; 2) the lack of a conceptual definition of the construct of the instrument as a requirement to retain items with I-CVI <0.70 after validity relevance pretesting and 3) the cognitive debriefing and relevance pretesting as methodological approaches which can be used alone or together to reinforce the evaluation of cultural relevance of the items. We concluded there is a need for guidelines to support the decision-making process of healthcare researchers with comprehensive information about the different methodological approaches they can follow.

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Test adaptation

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Translation, Cross-Cultural Adaptation, and Validation of Measurement Instruments: A Practical Guideline for Novice Researchers

Translation, Cross-Cultural Adaptation, and Validation of Measurement Instruments: A Practical Guideline for Novice Researchers

Evaluating the Methodological Approaches of Cross-Cultural Adaptation of the Bedside Handover Attitudes and Behaviours Questionnaire into Portuguese

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