PURPOSE In Brazil, formal tools for the evaluation of spoken language are scarce. Therefore, this study aimed to translate and adapt to Brazilian Portuguese the Preschool Language Assessment Instrument: Second Edition (PLAI-2). METHODS The process of translation and adaptation of this instrument was conducted in two stages - Stage 1: (1a) translation of the original version to Brazilian Portu...

This study assesses the psychometric properties of a Spanish translation of Doll and Torkzadeh’s End-User Computing Satisfaction (EUCS) survey instrument. The study provides evidence that the EUCS Spanish version can be used as a valid and reliable measure of computing satisfaction among computer users in Mexico. The study also adds support to the use of the EUCS instrument in the investigation...

BACKGROUND The Activity Measure for Post-Acute Care was developed to evaluate the limitations of activities of adult individuals with different health conditions. OBJECTIVES To translate and cultural adapt the Activity Measure for Post-Acute Care short forms for outpatients into Portuguese-Brazilian, to verify the comprehension of the items and categories of the responses by users of the reha...

OBJECTIVE To describe the process of cross-cultural adaptation and clinical validation of the Neonatal Skin Condition Score. METHODS This methodological cross-cultural adaptation study included five steps: initial translation, synthesis of the initial translation, back translation, review by an Committee of Specialists and testing of the pre-final version, and an observational cross-sectional...

Introduction: A significant gap between the number of individuals who need mental health care and the ones who actually have access to it has been consistently demonstrated in studies conducted in different countries. Recognizing the barriers to care and their contributions to delaying or preventing access to mental health services is a key step to improve the management of mental health care. ...

BACKGROUND Bipolar disorder (BD) is a chronic and often severe mental disease, associated with a significant burden in affected individuals. The characterization of a premorbid (prodromal) period and possible development of preventive interventions are recent advances in this field. Attempts to characterize high-risk stages in BD, identifying symptoms prior to the emergence of a first manic/hyp...

Mr. Editor, As the authors of the article “Translation, cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the vitiligo-specific health-related quality of life instrument (VitiQoL) into Brazilian Portuguese”, we would like to publish the translated version of VitiQol in Portuguese (Chart 1 and 2).1 This instrument has only been published in English, and we have been contacted by other health professio...

A new design for a high pressure MALDI-FTMS instrument is described and initial data are shown. The instrument incorporates a large, 10 cm x 10 cm, sample translation stage to accommodate and position the MALDI target. The new instrument allows coupling to a wide variety of surface techniques such as gel electrophoresis or surface plasmon resonance. Coupling to thin layer chromatography is show...

Introduction: The Rating Scale for Countertransference (RSCT) – originally, Escala para Avaliação de Contratransferência (EACT) – is a self-administered instrument comprising questions that assess 23 feelings (divided into three blocs, closeness, distance, and indifference) that access conscious countertransferential emotions and sentiments. This paper describes the process of translation and c...