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Cross-cultural validation of the self-assessment of competence in communication - SACCom - to Italian
Aurora d'Apolito1, Vanessa Veis Ribeiro1, Glaucya Madazio1
1Centro de Estudos da Voz - CEV - São Paulo (SP), Brasil.
Purpose:
To carry out the cross-cultural validation of the Self-Assessment of Competence in Communication - SACCom to Italian.
Methods:
The cross-cultural validation procedure followed the recommendations and guidelines of the COnsensus-based Standards for the selection of health Measurement INstruments (COSMIN) and consisted of five stages: 1) Translation of the SACCom from Brazilian Portuguese (BP) into Italian by three bilingual speech-language-hearing pathologists; 2) Preparation of a consensus version; 3) Back-translation from Italian into BP by a fourth bilingual speech-language-hearing pathologist; 4) Comparison of the back-translation with the original instrument and preparation of the final version in Italian called Test di Autovalutazione della Competenza nella Comunicazione (TACCom-IT); and, 5) Application of the TACCom-IT pre-test to 101 native Italians whose voice and communication are essential to their profession. At this stage, the option "not applicable" was added to the answer key.
Results:
In the translation, there were different lexical choices regarding the title, instructions, and seven items. In the back-translation, there were conceptual disagreements in the title and instructions, and lexical disagreements in five items. The expert committee made changes to the title, instructions, and three items. In the pre-test phase, a significantly higher proportion of participants responded with options from the instrument's usual answer key for all items.
Conclusion:
The Italian adapted version of SACCom, entitled Test di Autovalutazione della Competenza nella Comunicazione (TACCom-IT), shows satisfactory cultural and linguistic equivalence in relation to the original instrument and is considered cross-culturally valid.
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