Cultural adaptation of the Family Management Measure among families of children and adolescents with chronic diseases ¹

OBJECTIVES:

to perform the cultural adaptation of the Family Management Measure into the Brazilian Portuguese language.

METHOD:

the method complied with international recommendations for this type of study and was composed of the following steps: translation of the instrument into the Portuguese language; reaching consensus over the translated versions; assessment by an expert committee; back translation; and pretest.

RESULTS:

these stages enabled us to obtain conceptual, by-item, semantic, idiomatic, and operational equivalences, in addition to content validation.

CONCLUSION:

the Family Management Measure is adapted to the Brazilian Portuguese language and that version is named Instrumento de Medida de Manejo Familiar.

Family; Pediatrics; Chronic Disease