Transcultural adaptation of the Dementia Management Strategies Scale to Brazilian Portuguese
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Caregivers, Dementia, Psychological testsAbstract
The aim of the present study is to present the transcultural adaptation of the Dementia Management Strategies Scale to the Brazilian Portuguese language. This scale was developed to verify the frequency of use of three types of management strategies in dementia, by family caregivers of elderly with this disorder. It is divided into three factors: critical, active management and encouragement. There were 3 translators, 100 non-specialist judges, 5 expert judges and 15 caregivers who participated in the pilot study. The procedures conducted were: two independent translations, elaboration of a synthetic version, evaluation of the instrument by 100 non-specialist judges and by 5 specialist judges and, finally, a pilot study conducted with 15 caregivers of elderly patients with Alzheimer’s Disease. After the adaptations were made in all stages of the process of the transcultural adaptation, the equivalence between the two
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