Abstract
Introduction:
In Brazil, there is a gap of assessment, encompassing the use of assistive technology and functional mobility of wheelchairs users and caregivers. The Wheelchair Skills Program (WSP) is an integrated system that includes elements for testing and training wheelchair users, clinicians and/or their caregivers.
Objective:
Cross-cultural adaptation of the Portuguese-Brazil version of the Wheelchair Skill Test Questionnaire (WST-Q Version 4.3), a component of the WSP, and to examine its face validity.
Method:
Interactive steps were applied to produce Portuguese-Brazil versions of the WST-Q. The Cultural, Idiomatic, Semantic and Conceptual Equivalences were evaluated by a Committee of Specialists. Fifteen informal caregivers were evaluated with the WST-Q Brazil.
Results:
Twenty-eight of the 131 sentences were modified for further understanding. Subsequent semantic analysis reached 96.18% agreement, and language equivalence (100%), cultural (99.2%) and conceptual (100%) agreement. The questionnaire was easily understood between caregivers and the expert committee judged the Brazilian version equivalent to Canadian original.
Conclusion:
Success was achieved in cross-cultural adaptation of the tool, members of the expert committee judged the Brazilian version equivalent to the original Canadian. The WST-Q Brazil version 4.3 for caregivers contemplated 33 wheelchair transfer skills, mobility outdoor and indoor.
Keywords:
Wheelchair; Assessment; Assistive Technology; Translations
