Cross-cultural comparison Archives - Critical Care Science (CCS)
, , Abstract
Revista Brasileira de Terapia Intensiva. 2021;33(1):102-110
04-19-2021
DOI 10.5935/0103-507X.20210011
, , , To perform a cross-cultural adaptation of the Richmond Agitation-Sedation Scale (RASS) to Brazilian Portuguese for the evaluation of sedation in pediatric intensive care.
Cross-cultural adaptation process including the conceptual, item, semantic and operational equivalence stages according to current recommendations.
Pretests, divided into two stages, included 30 professionals from the pediatric intensive care unit of a university hospital, who administered the translated RASS to patients aged 29 days to 18 years. The pretests showed a content validity index above 0.90 for all items: 0.97 in the first stage of pretests and 0.99 in the second.
The cross-cultural adaptation of RASS to Brazilian Portuguese resulted in a version with excellent comprehensibility and acceptability in a pediatric intensive care setting. Reliability and validity studies should be performed to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Brazilian Portuguese version of the RASS.
Abstract
Revista Brasileira de Terapia Intensiva. 2021;33(1):102-110
04-19-2021
DOI 10.5935/0103-507X.20210011
, , , To perform a cross-cultural adaptation of the Richmond Agitation-Sedation Scale (RASS) to Brazilian Portuguese for the evaluation of sedation in pediatric intensive care.
Cross-cultural adaptation process including the conceptual, item, semantic and operational equivalence stages according to current recommendations.
Pretests, divided into two stages, included 30 professionals from the pediatric intensive care unit of a university hospital, who administered the translated RASS to patients aged 29 days to 18 years. The pretests showed a content validity index above 0.90 for all items: 0.97 in the first stage of pretests and 0.99 in the second.
The cross-cultural adaptation of RASS to Brazilian Portuguese resulted in a version with excellent comprehensibility and acceptability in a pediatric intensive care setting. Reliability and validity studies should be performed to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Brazilian Portuguese version of the RASS.