Translation and adaptation of the Children with Special Health Care Needs Screener to Brazilian Portuguese

• Published in: Cadernos de saúde pública Vol. 32; no. 6
• Main Authors: Arrué, Andrea Moreira, Neves, Eliane Tatsch, Magnago, Tânia Solange Bosi de Souza, Cabral, Ivone Evangelista, Gama, Silvana Granado Nogueira da, Hökerberg, Yara Hahr Marques
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Brazil 20-06-2016
• Subjects: Brazil; Child; Child, Preschool; Cross-Cultural Comparison; Disabled Children; Humans; Infant; Infant, Newborn; Mass Screening - instrumentation; Observer Variation; Psychometrics; Reproducibility of Results; Surveys and Questionnaires; Translations
• ISSN: 1678-4464
• DOI: 10.1590/0102-311X00130215

This study aimed to elaborate the Brazilian version of the Children with Special Health Care Needs Screener to assess internal consistency and inter-observer agreement. The stages included translation, back-translation, expert committee review, and pretest. Participation included 140 family members of children 0-12 years of age at health services in southern Brazil. Reliability was assessed with kappa statistic and Cronbach's alpha. In the assessment of clarity with health professionals, 80% rated the questions very clear. Prevalence of children with special health needs was 36%. Mean time for applying the instrument was 3.5 minutes. The process identified difficulties in understanding question number two. The instrument showed satisfactory internal consistency and perfect agreement. Future research should add to the psychometric analyses of the instrument's adequacy for the Brazilian context, thereby contributing to a standardized definition of this young age group's epidemiological profile within the public health scenario in Brazil.