Spanish cross-cultural adaptation of the scale health-related quality of life in Stroke Patients (HRQOLISP-40)

Abstract

Background. The measurement of quality of life in patients with stroke is important because it can guide the management of rehabilitation processes. In Colombia there are no instruments for measuring quality of life in stroke patients. The objective was to perform the cross-cultural adaptation of Health-Related Quality of Life In Stroke Patients HRQLISP-40 scale for use in Colombia. Objective. To make a transcultural adaptation to the Health- Related Quality of Life In Stroke Patients HRQOLISP-40 scale in order to use it in Colombia.Materials and Methods. The methodological recommendations by EORTC quality of life group were taken: initial translation, back translation and pilot study. Results. Direct translations were similar in 24/40 items; in 12 items there were variations in writing without changing the words; in the instructions, an option of choices and 4 items were required to choose the best translation of a word. The reverse translations were similar to each other and with the original version of the scale; in the pilot test there were difficulty in comprehension understanding 3 items and were adopted the author’s suggestions concerns the patients, there was no trouble or non-comfortableness nor any paraphrase were suggested. Conclusion. To finish this phase it is the Colombian Spanish version of HRQLISP-40 scale to be submitted for validation prior to use in assessing quality of life in stroke patients.