• Priscila Alencar Mendes Reis, Zuila Maria de Figueiredo Carvalho, Juan José Tirado Darder, Mônica Oliveira Batista Oriá, Rita Mônica Borges Studart, and Samia Jardelle Costa de Freitas Maniva.
• Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil.
• Rev Esc Enferm Usp. 2015 Jun 1; 49 (3): 403-10.

ObjectiveTo translate and culturally adapt to Portuguese the Ferrans and Powers Quality of Life Index Spinal Cord Injury - Version III and characterize the sample in relation to sociodemographic and clinical aspects.MethodA methodological study with view to cross-cultural adaptation, following the particular steps of this method: initial translation, translation synthesis, back-translation (translation back to the original language), review by a committee of judges and pretest of the final version. The pretest was carried out with 30 patients with spinal cord injury.ResultsAn index of 74 items divided into two parts (satisfaction/importance) was obtained. The criteria of semantic equivalence were evaluated as very adequate translation, higher than 87%, and vocabulary and were grammar higher than 86%. Idiomatic equivalence was higher than 74%, experimental greater than 78% and conceptual was greater than 70%.ConclusionAfter cross-cultural adaptation, the instrument proved semantic, idiomatic, experimental and conceptual adequacy, in addition to helping the evaluation of the quality of life of people with spinal cord injury.

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