Knowledge questionnaire over forensics nursing practices: Adaptation to brazil and psychometric properties

Abstract

Background: Recognizing violence and providing assistance to victims or aggressors are challenges facing nursing. Objective: To adapt the Knowledge Questionnaire over Forensics Nursing Practices to Brazil and verify its psychometric properties. Methodology: Methodological study with nursing undergraduates, involving linguistic and semantic adaptation and analysis of the psychometric properties (convergent and divergent validity and reliability). Results: In its general semantic validation, the questionnaire version adapted to Brazilian Portuguese showed good/ very good acceptance (97.0%), high relevance (56%), and easy comprehension (83.0%). In terms of item evaluation, the relevance ranged from 61 to 95.0% and its comprehension and clarity were higher than 93.0% and 90.0%, respectively. The analysis of the psychometric properties with 253 students showed that both convergent validity and divergent validity were satisfactory only for two subscales and that the overall reliability was satisfactory. Conclusion: The linguistic and semantic adaptation of the questionnaire to Brazilian Portuguese was satisfactory, as well as its reliability. It is recommended that the content of the items and their association with the theoretical aspects, the number of items, and the subscales’ reorganization should be assessed.