Adaptação transcultural para o Português Brasileiro do instrumento The Epilepsy Beliefs and Attitudes Scale (EBAS) - Adult version

Abstract

Introduction: the lack of knowledge about epilepsy has boosted the interest to develop instruments aimed for the detection of beliefs and attitudes of the community in general about the disease. Objective: to carry out the transcultural adaptation of the instrument The Epilepsy Beliefs and Attitudes Scale (EBAS) - Adult Version and a version in Brazilian Portuguese. Method: the transcultural adaptation involved the conceptual, items, operational and semantic equivalences. Results: the concepts were considered relevant to our culture and the items as appropriate to their ability to represent these concepts in the target population. It was possible establish high-quality semantic equivalence between the Brazilian Portuguese-language final version and the original. Conclusion: the instrument proved to be suitable for use in the general population and the results will be reevaluated in the light of forthcoming psychometric analysis.