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Cross-cultural adaptation of the Battelle Development Inventory, 2nd Edition for Brazil

Adaptação transcultural do Battelle Developmental Inventory, 2nd Edition para o Brasil

Abstract

The Battelle Developmental Inventory, 2nd Edition is a standardized inventory for evaluating the child development from birthto seven years, 11 months old. The objective of this article is to describe the process of cross-cultural adaptation of the Battelle Developmental Inventory, 2nd Edition Protocolto Portuguese-Brazil. This methodological study was conducted in three steps: 1) Pre-condition; 2) Test development; and 3) Evaluation of content validity. Adjustments were performed in the formulation of some items, as well as in the stimuli for structured application of the Brazilian version of Battelle Developmental Inventory, 2nd Edition. Compared to the original version, the Brazilian version showed good semantic, idiomatic, experiential, conceptual, and operational equivalences, as well as excellent content validity indexes. This adapted version of the Battelle Developmental Inventory, 2nd Edition for Brazil can be considered aviableinstrument for the usewith a Brazilian infant and child population.

Keywords
Child development; Development measures; Scales; Translating

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