Atuação do comitê de juízes na adaptação cultural do diabetes empowerment scale-short form (DES-SF)

Abstract

Objective: The objective of this study is to describe a methodological proposal for the role performed by an expert committee’s via an electronic questionnaire implemented and tested in the cross-cultural adaptation of the Diabetes Empowerment Scale-Short Form instrument. Method: A methodological study was carried out with 38 specialists from the fields of linguistics and health sciences who evaluated the instrument translated version of DES-SF by means of an electronic questionnaire, developed and administered through the web tool eSurv. The level of acceptance of the answers by the experts was evaluated by absolute and relative frequencies and the level of agreement among the experts was evaluated by calculating the Cohen-Fleisss Kappa coefficient. The analyses were carried out in the statistical software and environment R. Results: Interdisciplinary collaboration, together with a web data collection methodology yielded a larger diversity of opinions and consequently low agreement among the experts on the items of the translated instrument. However, it is believed that this diversity of opinions generated suggestions that have enriched the translation process. Conclusion: A web tool to collect expert committee’s assessment proved to be reliable, safe and effective to evaluate the translation of a healthcare instrument