Citation

Soares MH, Vargas DD. Rev. Esc. Enferm. USP 2013; 47(4): 899-906.

Vernacular Title

Tradução e adaptação cultural da Management of Aggression And Violence Attitude Scale - MAVAS - em enfermeiros brasileiros.

Affiliation

Department of Nursing, Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, LondrinaPR, Brasil, mhirata@uel.br.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, Universidade de Sao Paulo)

DOI

10.1590/S0080-623420130000400018

PMID

24310688

Abstract

This study translated and culturally adapted the Management of Aggression and Violence Attitude Scale - MAVAS - for use in Brazil (BR). The methodology followed the international guidelines for the cultural adaptation of psychometric scales: conceptual equivalence, semantic equivalence, items equivalence, and operational equivalence. A group of judges performed a content validity analysis that resulted in a 23-item scale divided into four factors with satisfactory content validity coefficients (CVCs) for the following parameters: clarity of language (CL; 0.88), practical relevance (PR; 0.91), and theoretical relevance (TR; 0.92). The data were collected in Londrina, state of Paraná, BR in 2011. The MAVAS was translated and culturally adapted for use in BR, and the MAVAS-BR exhibited satisfactory content validity. Future studies concerning the MAVAS-BR are suggested, including the evaluation of psychometric qualities, such as its construct validity and reliability.

Language: en