Adaptação transcultural: Multidimensional orientation toward dying and death inventory (MODDI-F) à realidade Brasileira

Abstract

Many studies have been conducted about death; however, there are no instruments available in Brazil to evaluate this phenomenon. The purpose of this study was to perform the cross-cultural adaptation of the Multidimensional Orientation Toward Dying and Death Inventory (MODDI-F), originally designed in Germany and translated into English, constituted by 47 items divided in eight domains. This scale evaluates people's reactions and attitudes in relation to fear of death and dying. To produce the first version, it was translated into Portuguese, separately, by three experts in English. The first version was submitted to five judges for the "Semantic and Idiomatic Equivalences Evaluation", which produced the second version. The second version was submitted to the second group of five judges for a conceptual and cultural evaluation (third version). Then the Focal Group was developed, in which the instrument, which was called IMMOR in Portuguese, was analyzed by community representatives, of both sexes, different ages and levels of schooling, establishing the fourth version, which was submitted to a back-translation and sent to the author. After the implementation of the changes he suggested, we reached the final version. According to the methodological steps that were developed, it is possible to state that the present instrument is adapted to the Brazilian culture.