Translation and cultural adaptation of the Needs of Parents Questionnaire (NPQ) to be used in Brazil

Abstract

Objective: To translate, culturally adapt, and assess the internal consistency of the adapted version of the Needs of Parents Questionnaire (NPQ) to be used in Brazil with a sample of parents of hospitalized children. Method: Methodological study, essentially based on the DISABKIDS ® method and conducted in a public university hospital. The stages included translation, assessment by an expert committee, back translation, semantic validation, and pilot study. Results: After the original instrument was translated into Brazilian Portuguese and then back-translated, the semantic validation was performed with 30 parents and adjustments were implemented until the translated version was understandable by most participants. Afterwards, a pilot test was implemented with another 59 parents, the internal consistency of which was satisfactory. Conclusions: The Brazilian version of the NPQ proved to be reliable and, after assessing other psychometric properties in the field study, it will be useful to assess the needs of parents of hospitalized children, qualifying nursing care. resumenObjetivo: Realizar traducción, adaptación cultural y evaluación de la consistencia interna de la versión adaptada del Needs of Parents Questionnaire (NPQ) en muestras con padres de niños hospitalizados en Brasil. Método: Estudio metodológico, fundamentado esencialmente en el método DISABKIDS ® , desarrollado en hospital público universitario. Fueron realizadas etapas de traducción, evaluación por un comité de expertos, retrotraducción, validación semántica y estudio piloto. Resultados: Después del proceso de traducción y retrotraducción del instrumento original para el portugués, se produjo la validación semántica con 30 padres, realizándose adecuaciones hasta que la versión traducida fuera considerada comprensible por la mayoría. Después, fue realizado el estudio piloto con otros 59 padres, presentando valores satisfactorios de la consistencia interna. Conclusiones: El NPQ adaptado se demostró confiable y, después de la evaluación de propiedades psicométricas en el estudio de campo, podrá ser útil para evaluar las necesidades de padres de niños hospitalizados, cualificando el cuidado de enfermería. Palabras clave:

Parent and staff perceptions of patient and family‐centred care in a Brazilian paediatric's hospital: Quantitative study

“…Some possible reasons for the differences found in the other answers between parents and staff can be considered: The team may not fully understand the parents' expectations and needs in their interactions with health care providers or the staff's perceptions of their own performance fall short of their expectations, being more critical toward care and the concepts of the PFCC model, particularly in the provision of support and assistance to the parents' needs, thus reflecting similar findings in previous studies on the needs of parents when their children are hospitalized 32,33 …”

Cultural adaptation and assessment of the reliability of the Special Needs Kids Questionnaire for the Brazilian context

“…This study presented the process of cultural adaptation of the SpeNK-Q to Brazilian Portuguese based on the perspective of the authors of the instrument, that is, in order to promote the continuity of care for children with special health needs, it is essential to develop valid measures to assess the perceptions and experiences of parents when interacting with various services and professionals involved in the care of their children (3) . Moreover, the decision to culturally adapt an existing instrument instead of developing a new instrument was based on the justification of saving time and the possibility of comparing the results in different contexts as advantageous aspects of cultural adaptation (14) .…”

“…Regarding the number of participants, the recommendations of the DISABKIDS® Group were observed, which recommends that each item subset be evaluated by three subjects from two different age groups (13) . However, as the participants were adults, their educational level was considered instead of age, similar to what was proposed in a recent study (14) .…”

Translation and cultural adaptation of data collection instruments on gender construction in childhood

“…Mostly, they use quantitative approaches by applying statistical tests to reach a final version. [11][12][13][14][15][16] The particularity of the process developed in this article was the scientific validity of the instruments, based on rounds of qualitative evaluation, since observers joined the Committee of Judges and were able to bring their insights and experiences from the natural environment of the pre-test when they were observing.…”

“…[12][13][14] In this sense, the Cuban Spanish version of the instruments Encuesta de constatación y reflexión del sexismo en el ámbito escolar and Cuestionário auto-administrado de constatación y reflexión del sexismo en el ámbito escolar, into Brazilian Portuguese was performed in four stages, as shown in Figure 1. The first three stages were introduced before the extensionist Gender and health in childhood Esperón JMT, Cabral IE, Leal RJ, Rodrigues EC, Christoffel MM, Moraes JRMM this textual intervention by the Committee of Judges, besides the Spanish version (back-translation -V4), the first version in Portuguese (V5 and V6) of both instruments was produced.…”