Garrido Urrutia Constanza, Espinoza Santander Iris, Romo Ormazábal Fernando
Clinica Integral del Adulto, Facultad de Odontologia, Universidad de Chile.
Rev Esp Salud Publica. 2010 Jul-Aug;84(4):409-16. doi: 10.1590/s1135-57272010000400005.
Caregivers of disable and dependent people, institutionalized elderly and hospitalized, must provided oral health care for the patients under their care, for that reason, it is necessary to have a valid instrument in Spanish to measure oral health beliefs among caregivers. The aim of the study was to translate to Spanish the Nursing Dental Coping Beliefs Scale (Nursing DCBS) and validate this questionnaire to be used on Hispanic caregivers.
The nursing DCBS was translated to Spanish and revised for linguistic adaptation. A group of experts revised their content and face validity. A pilot study of the questionnaire in Spanish, was held in a group of 118 nurse assistant students from two professional institutes. The reliability of the instrument, was evaluated by its internal consistency with Cronbach's Alpha and the measurement stability, through intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC).
The questionnaire was validated by its appearance and content. The internal consistency for the questionnaire through Cronbach's Alpha was 0.64 and the stability of the instrument 0.5 for ICC.
The Spanish version of the nursing Dental Coping Beliefs Scale is a questionnaire that has an internal consistency to be used as an instrument to measure oral health beliefs among caregivers, however, future investigations must re-evaluate there psychometric characteristics, specially its stability as an instrument.
残疾和需要照料的人群、机构养老的老年人以及住院患者的照料者必须为他们所照料的患者提供口腔保健服务。因此，有必要拥有一份有效的西班牙语工具来衡量照料者的口腔健康信念。本研究的目的是将护理牙科应对信念量表（Nursing DCBS）翻译成西班牙语，并验证该问卷在西班牙裔照料者中的适用性。
将护理DCBS翻译成西班牙语，并进行语言适应性修订。一组专家对其内容和表面效度进行了修订。在来自两个专业机构的118名护士助理学生中，对西班牙语问卷进行了预试验。通过Cronbach's Alpha评估工具的内部一致性，并通过组内相关系数（ICC）评估测量稳定性。
问卷通过外观和内容得到验证。通过Cronbach's Alpha得出问卷的内部一致性为0.64，ICC得出工具的稳定性为0.5。
护理牙科应对信念量表的西班牙语版本是一份具有内部一致性的问卷，可作为衡量照料者口腔健康信念的工具，然而，未来的研究必须重新评估其心理测量特征，特别是作为一种工具的稳定性。
