[Translation and transcultural adaptation of the Toe Walking Tool: screening tool of toe walking patients].

INTRODUCTION

The Toe Walking Tool (TWT) is a clinical screening instrument which helps in the differentiation of children with normal development, idiopathic toe-walking or toe-walking due to a medical cause.

AIM

To carry out the translation and cross-cultural adaptation of the TWT for the Spanish pediatric population and to evaluate its content validity.

SUBJECTS AND METHODS

This paper was carried out following an inverted method of translation and back-translation. Once the pre-final Spanish version was obtained, its analysis was conducted through the Delphi method by a panel of experts. The content validity of the tool explores its clarity, viability, applicability and usefulness.

RESULTS

An expert panel composed by 15 professionals determine the content validity of the Spanish version of the TWT. The questionnaire translated and adapted transculturally into Spanish presented an excellent global content validity index (0.94) and the expert committee considered that the scale was easily understandable, viable, simple to apply and useful in the pediatric setting.

CONCLUSIONS

The Spanish version of the TWT presents an excellent content validity and is an understandable, viable, simple and useful assessment tool. It is necessary to carry out future studies to analyze its psychometric properties with a Spanish pediatric population.