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- Gabriela Gallego Valera, Natália Lindemann Carezzato, Francisco Assis Carvalho Vale, and Priscilla Hortense.
- Nursing Department, Center of Biological Sciences and Health, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, São Carlos, SP, Brazil, gabrielagallego86@hotmail.com.
- Rev Esc Enferm Usp. 2014 Jun 1; 48 (3): 462-8.
ObjectiveTo translate and culturally adapt to Brazil the scale Pain Assessment in Advanced Dementia(PAINAD).MethodThe cultural adaptation process followed the methodology of a theorical reference, in five steps: translation to Brazilian Portuguese, consensual version of translations, back-translation to the original language, revision by a committee of specialists in the field and a equivalency pre-test. The instrument was assessed and applied by 27 health professionals in the last step.ResultsThe Escala de Avaliação de Dor em Demência Avançada was culturally adapted to Brazil and presented semantic equivalency to the original, besides clarity, applicability and easy comprehension of the instrument items.ConclusionThis process secured the psychometric properties as the reliability and content validity of the referred scale.
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