Cultural adaptation and translation of measures: An integrated method

Research in Nursing and Health

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 133-143

  Sidani, Souraya ^a   Guruge, Sepali ^a   Miranda, Joyal ^b   Ford Gilboe, Marilyn ^c   Varcoe, Colleen ^d  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Conceptual equivalence; Culture; Group cognitive interview; Measures; Method; Translation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; LANGUAGE; METHODOLOGY; MIGRATION; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SRI LANKA; VALIDATION STUDY;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; DATA COLLECTION; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MULTILINGUALISM; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; PSYCHOMETRICS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL VALUES; SPOUSE ABUSE; SRI LANKA; TRANSLATING; VALIDATION STUDIES AS TOPIC;

EID: 77950504926     PISSN: 01606891     EISSN: 1098240X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nur.20364     Document Type: Article

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