%0 Journal Article
%T Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the instrument Diabetes - 39 (D-39): brazilian version for type 2 diabetes mellitus patients - stage 1
%A Queiroz
%A Fl¨˘via Alline de
%A Pace
%A Ana Emilia
%A Santos
%A Claudia Benedita dos
%J Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem
%D 2009
%I Universidade de S?o Paulo
%R 10.1590/S0104-11692009000500018
%X the study aimed to accomplish a cross-cultural adaptation of the "diabetes - 39 - d-39" instrument for brazil, to test the validity of the adapted version in a sample of type 2 diabetes mellitus patients and to describe the participants of the study, according to the scores obtained on the likert-type scale. the instrument adaptation process followed several steps: instrument translation; achievement of the consensus in portuguese; evaluation by an expert committee; back-translation; achievement of the consensus in english; comparison of the original and consensus versions in english; semantic analysis and pre-test of the portuguese version. results showed that the instrument items, in the first stage of cultural adaptation to portuguese, presented high internal consistency levels.
%K quality of life
%K diabetes mellitus
%K type 2
%K validation studies.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0104-11692009000500018&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en