• Mariana Rodrigues Gazzotti, Marcela Batan Alith, Suzana Maria Fleury Malheiros, Milena Carlos Vidotto, José Roberto Jardim, and Oliver Augusto Nascimento.
• Neurosurgery Physiotherapy Research Group, Respiratory Division, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil. marigazzotti@terra.com.br
• Sao Paulo Med J. 2011 Jan 1; 129 (4): 230235230-5.

Context And ObjectiveQuality of life assessment among patients with brain tumors is important, given that new treatments have increased patient survival. The aim of this study was to translate the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Brain (FACT-Br) questionnaire (version 4) into Portuguese, carry out cross-cultural adaptation and assess its reproducibility.Design And SettingCohort at the Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Unifesp).MethodsForty patients with a brain tumor seen at the neuro-oncology outpatient clinic participated in the study. The process of translation and back-translation was carried out, along with adaptation to the Portuguese language and Brazilian culture. The intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) was used to test the reproducibility of the FACT-Br (version 4).ResultsThe reproducibility of the questionnaire was excellent (ICC = 0.95; 95% confidence interval, CI: 0.89-0.97). The ICC with a mean interval of 15 days between applications of the questionnaire was very good in all domains (ICC = 0.87 to 0.95). The mean time taken to answer the questionnaire was 6.27 ± 2.26 minutes, ranging from 3 to 11 minutes.ConclusionThe translated version of the FACT-Br questionnaire (version 4) adapted to the Portuguese language and Brazilian culture proved to be easily understood and achieved very good reproducibility among patients with diagnoses of brain tumors.

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