• Marcelli Cristine Vocci, Cassiana Mendes Bertoncello Fontes, and Luciana Patricia Fernandes Abbade.
• Universidade Estadual Paulista, Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu, Botucatu, SP, Brazil.
• Rev Lat Am Enfermagem. 2021 Jan 1; 29: e3424.

Objectiveto describe the methodological process of cultural adaptation of the Glamorgan Scale to Brazilian Portuguese.Methoda methodological study of translation and cultural adaptation of the Glamorgan Scale, following the six stages: initial translation, synthesis of translations, back-translation, committee of experts, pre-test, and submission of the adapted version to the author for approval. The committee of experts was composed of five physicians and, during evaluation, a semantic, idiomatic, cultural and conceptual analysis was carried out. The agreement and representativeness of the items were assessed using the Content Validity Index. A minimum value of 80% agreement was considered.Resultsall stages of the translation and cross-cultural adaptation process were satisfactory. In the evaluation made by the committee of experts, all items obtained an agreement greater than 80% in the first evaluation round. The pre-test stage allowed for a critical overview of the instrument, where few modifications were suggested by the participants.Conclusionthe Glamorgan Scale was translated and culturally adapted to Brazilian Portuguese. Future psychometric studies are necessary to validate the scale.

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