ABSTRACT
Introduction:
There are several tools that measure physical activity in Brazil. One of them is the Three Day Physical Activity Recall; however, until now, no tool was subjected to cross-cultural adaptation.
Objective:
To describe the procedures and criteria for selecting the Three Day Physical Activity Recall on the conceptual, semantic and items equivalence, which resulted in the Brazilian version for adolescents from 10 to 12 years.
Methods:
Articles have been compiled containing the self-report instrument that had as variables of interest the level of physical activity and energy cost. A survey was conducted in the following databases: BIREME, LILACS, MEDLINE, PubMed, SciELO, Web of Science, and SPORTDiscus. The steps of cultural adaptation came next: 10 doctors and 30 members of the target population participated of the evaluation and adjustment of the construct to the Brazilian culture (conceptual and item equivalence) and the Portuguese version of the instrument followed all recommendations for semantic equivalence.
Results:
Here we present the evaluations of doctors on the Portuguese version of the instrument, involving questions about regionality of activities, cognitive impairment to self-report, instructions, ability to measure physical activity and their domains. The different versions of the translation and retranslation of the tool, highlighting on the changes requested as well as the final version are presented.
Conclusions:
Since the prerequisites of cultural adaptation have been met, it was concluded that the tool is adapted for the target population and culture; nevertheless, the psychometric qualities, reproducibility and validity, construct and criterion must be tested.
Keywords:
motor activity; energy metabolism; cross-cultural comparison; surveys and questionnaires
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