Cross-cultural cultural adaptation of the “Nursing Students’ Attitudes Toward Mental Health Nursing and Consumers” in Brazil

ABSTRACT

Objective:

to make across-cultural adaptation of the “Nursing Students’ Attitudes Toward Mental Health Nursing and Consumers” scale in Brazil.

Method:

the scale was tested regarding conceptual, item, semantic, and operational equivalence.

Results:

content validation was conducted by an expert committee with a minimum consensus level of 80%. This process resulted in a 35-item scale divided into 6 factors. The experts reached 100% consensus on the scale’s clarity of language, practical pertinence and theoretical relevance, as well as on the need for excluding one factor. Data were collected in 2013 in the city of Londrina, Paraná, Brazil.

Conclusion:

the instrument was cross-culturally adapted to Brazilian Portuguese and presented satisfactory content validity. We propose further studies on the scale’s psychometric properties, such as construct validity, internal consistency and reliability.

Key words:
Psychiatric Nursing; Validation Studies; Education; Higher; Scales