The Readiness for Hospital Discharge Scale - Adult Form was successfully cross-culturally adapted for use in Brazil, maintaining semantic, idiomatic, cultural, and conceptual equivalences.
The Readiness for Hospital Discharge Scale - Adult Form has been successfully culturally adapted and validated for use in Brazil.
OBJECTIVE: to perform the cross-cultural adaptation of the Readiness for Hospital Discharge Scale - (RHDS) Adult Form for use in Brazil. METHOD: a methodological study was conducted in 2015, in Brazil's federal capital, following the eight stages scientifically established. RESULTS: analysis proved the maintenance of semantic, idiomatic, cultural, and conceptual equivalences and kept both the face and content validity of the original version. The judging committee and the pre-test participants declared they understood the RHDS items and answer scale. CONCLUSION: the instrument is culturally adapted for Brazil and can be used as one of the stages for planning hospital discharge.
Siqueira et al. (Tue,) conducted a other in Hospital discharge planning. Readiness for Hospital Discharge Scale - Adult Form (RHDS) was evaluated on Cross-cultural adaptation and validity (semantic, idiomatic, cultural, and conceptual equivalences, face and content validity). The Readiness for Hospital Discharge Scale - Adult Form was successfully cross-culturally adapted for use in Brazil, maintaining semantic, idiomatic, cultural, and conceptual equivalences.