Clinical Frailty Scale : Translation and Cultural Adaptation into the Brazilian Portuguese Language

BACKGROUND: Frailty is a biological syndrome that causes adverse events in the health of older adults. However, the Clinical Frailty Scale has not yet been culturally adapted and validated into Brazilian Portuguese language.

OBJECTIVES: Our aim was to translate, reproduce and validate the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) for the Brazilian Portuguese language.

DESIGN: An observational cross-sectional study with senior patients was conducted between Jan 2018 and Nov 2018.

SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: Volunteers aged >60 and living in Brazil. The translation and cultural adaptation of the CFS into the Portuguese language, the principles and good practices were followed.

MEASUREMENTS: To conduct the validation and determine the reproducibility of an inter-observer evaluation, the patients answered the scale questions in Portuguese on two occasions, delivered by two separate examiners and separated by a 10-minute interval, on their first visit; the 36-item Short Form Survey quality-of-life questionnaire (SF-36) was also applied. Seven days later, a second visit was undertaken to perform an intra-observer reproducibility assessment.

RESULTS: A total of 66 older individuals were enrolled (72 ± 8 years), the majority of which did not present frailty (63.6%) and reported a low physical limitation level in the SF-36. The CFS showed a significant correlation with the SF-36 quality-of-life questionnaire (r= -0.663; p<0.0001) and no statistical difference was observed between intra-rater (p=0.641) and inter-rater (p=0.350) applications, demonstrating the reproducibility and applicability of the instrument. The standard error estimate (SEE) was evaluated and there were no differences between the CFS and the SF-36 (SEE= 1.13 points).

CONCLUSION: The Brazilian Portuguese language version of the CFS is a valid, reproducible and reliable instrument for evaluating the impact of frailty on the lives of senior patients.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:10

Enthalten in:

The Journal of frailty & aging - 10(2021), 1 vom: 16., Seite 38-43

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Rodrigues, M K [VerfasserIn]
Nunes Rodrigues, I [VerfasserIn]
Vasconcelos Gomes da Silva, D J [VerfasserIn]
de S Pinto, J M [VerfasserIn]
Oliveira, M F [VerfasserIn]

Links:

Volltext

Themen:

Ageing
Clinical frailty scale
Frailty
Journal Article
Translation
Validation study

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 13.01.2021

Date Revised 13.01.2021

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.14283/jfa.2020.7

funding:

Förderinstitution / Projekttitel:

PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM318966611