Adaptação transcultural e validação preliminar do instrumento Family Satisfaction with Care in the Intensive Care Unit (FS-ICU 24) para o português do Brasil

Abstract

This is a methodological study in order to perform the cross-cultural adaptation of the Family Satisfaction with Care in the Intensive Care Unit (FS-ICU 24) to the Portuguese of Brazil. The FS-ICU has 24 items and is divided into two parts, the first being to assess family satisfaction with care in general (14 items) and the second assessing family satisfaction with decision making around care (10 items). It was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Nursing School under opinion 1,104,124. The following stages were followed: instrument translation into Brazilian Portuguese; obtaining the first consensus of versions in Portuguese; evaluation version consensus by the expert committee; back translation; obtaining the consent of the English versions and compared to the original version and; semantic evaluation. The development of the stages was carried out from December 2014 to June 2015 and led to the Portuguese version Final Consensus. In the process of adaptation found to semantic equivalence between the final Portuguese version and the original, as well as understanding of the instrument adapted by the participants of the semantic evaluation. It is concluded that the cross-cultural adaptation resulted in a version understandable and easy to apply for the Brazilian population.