CROSS-CULTURAL ADAPTATION OF HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY-OF-LIFE MEASURES - LITERATURE-REVIEW AND PROPOSED GUIDELINES
CROSS-CULTURAL ADAPTATION OF HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY-OF-LIFE MEASURES - LITERATURE-REVIEW AND PROPOSED GUIDELINES
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DOI：
10.1016/0895-4356(93)90142-n
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发表时间：
1993-12-01
影响因子：
7.2
通讯作者：
BEATON, D
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作者：
GUILLEMIN, F;BOMBARDIER, C;BEATON, D
临床医生和研究人员没有合适的健康相关生活质量（HRQOL）测量在他们自己的语言有两个选择：（1）开发一个新的措施，或（2）修改以前在另一种语言验证的措施，被称为跨文化适应过程。我们提出了一套标准化的指导方针，这一过程的基础上，以前的研究心理学和社会学和出版的方法框架。这些指导原则包括通过使用回译技术和委员会审查、预测试技术和重新检查分数的权重来获得语义、习语、经验和概念上的对等。我们应用这些准则，以17个跨文化适应HRQOL措施，通过全面的文献综述。报告标准因研究而异，但评分者对研究的评分基本一致（加权kappa = 0.66-0.93），表明指南易于应用。有必要开展进一步的研究，以确定适应进程中的基本步骤和可选步骤。
Clinicians and researchers without a suitable health-related quality of life (HRQOL) measure in their own language have two choices: (1) to develop a new measure, or (2) to modify a measure previously validated in another language, known as a cross-cultural adaptation process. We propose a set of standardized guidelines for this process based on previous research in psychology and sociology and on published methodological frameworks. These guidelines include recommendations for obtaining semantic, idiomatic, experiential and conceptual equivalence in translation by using back-translation techniques and committee review, pre-testing techniques and re-examining the weights of scores. We applied these guidelines to 17 cross-cultural adaptation of HRQOL measures identified through a comprehensive literature review. The reporting standards varied across studies but agreement between raters in their ratings of the studies was substantial to almost perfect (weighted kappa = 0.66-0.93) suggesting that the guidelines are easy to apply. Further research is necessary in order to delineate essential versus optional steps in the adaptation process.