Translating instruments into other languages: Development and testing processes
Translating instruments into other languages: Development and testing processes
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DOI：
10.1097/00002820-200202000-00001
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发表时间：
2002-02-01
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影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Skrutkowski, M
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作者：
Hilton, A;Skrutkowski, M
跨文化的影响影响的看法和健康的做法，这是护理关注的2个领域。需要文化敏感的评估工具，但在获得有效和可靠的衡量方面存在许多挑战。翻译跨文化研究的问卷调查充满了与口语短语、行话、习惯表达、词语清晰度和词义有关的方法论陷阱。不能假定某一特定概念在不同文化中具有相同的相关性。简单地将英文版本逐字翻译成另一种语言是不足以解释语言和文化差异的。理想情况下，应该首先研究文化中人们对兴趣概念的看法，但实际的替代方案往往是找到并翻译另一种文化中开发的工具。本文的目的是描述在进行等值翻译时的重要考虑因素、等值的类型、翻译促进等值的工具的策略以及如何测试译文的等值。这些概念和策略说明了翻译过程中的希尔顿的不确定性压力量表翻译成法语和使用和测试的法语版本与加拿大的法国样本在Skrutkowski的研究中感知的不确定性在成年癌症幸存者。
Cross-cultural influences affect perceptions and health practices, which are 2 areas of nursing concern. Culturally sensitive assessment instruments are needed, but many challenges exist in obtaining valid and reliable measurement. Translating questionnaires for cross-cultural research is fraught with methodological pitfalls related to colloquial phrases, jargon, idiomatic expressions, word clarity, and word meanings. It cannot be assumed that a particular concept has the same relevance across cultures. Simply translating an English version word-for-word into another language is not adequate to account for linguistic and cultural differences. Ideally, the perspectives of people from the culture about the concept of interest should be studied first, but often a practical alternative is to find and translate a tool developed in another culture. The purpose of this article is to describe important considerations in conducting translation for equivalence, types of equivalence, and strategies to translate instruments that promote equivalence and how to test the translated version for equivalence. These concepts and strategies are illustrated by describing the translation process of Hilton's Uncertainty Stress Scale into French and the use and testing of the French version with a French Canadian sample in Skrutkowski's study of perceived uncertainty in adult survivors of cancer.