Adaptação transcultural de instrumento para avaliação da assistência da doença renal crônica

Abstract

Objective: To carry out the cross-cultural adaptation and content validation into Brazilian Portuguese of the Questionnaire Evaluating Primary Care Practitioners’ confi dence and knowledge in managing chronic kidney disease (QICKD-CCQ). Material and Methods: Methodological study for cross-cultural adaptation and content validation. The original UK instrument to assess the safety and knowledge of primary health care professionals in the treatment of chronic kidney disease. Four professionals performed the translation and back-translation, it was evaluated by fi ve experts using the Delphi Method in four rounds. Semantic validation by 50 primary health care physicians and nurses. For internal consistency, statistical with Cronbach’s alpha was used. Results: The 07 domains present in the original QICKD-CCQ instrument were kept, with adaptations to the Brazilian Portuguese language for the terms used in the Unifi ed Health System. The correlations found in all domains were high, and the instrument had a confi dence level of 0 .82959, which indicates consistency and a high level of agreement for the instrument. Conclusion: The QICKD-CCQ instrument, Portuguese version, was considered valid and reliable to characterize the capacity, safety and knowledge of primary health care professionals for the management of patients with chronic kidney disease.