A review of guidelines for cross-cultural adaptation of questionnaires could not bring out a consensus

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 435-441

  Epstein, Jonathan ^a   Santo, Ruth Miyuki ^b   Guillemin, Francis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Concept; Culture; Guidelines; Method; Questionnaire

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACK TRANSLATION; CONSENSUS; CONTENT VALIDITY; CROSS CULTURAL ADAPTATION; CULTURAL FACTOR; FACE VALIDITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; QUALITY CONTROL PROCEDURES; QUESTIONNAIRE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VALIDATION PROCESS; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; LANGUAGE; PUBLICATION;

CONSENSUS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TRANSLATIONS;

EID: 84925359968     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2014.11.021     Document Type: Review

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