Resumen

SARAIVA, Dora Maria Ricardo Fonseca  y  ALMEIDA, Anabela Antunes de. Translation and Cultural Adaptation of the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire: Short Form 2006 for Portugal. Port J Public Health [online]. 2017, vol.35, n.3, pp.2-10. ISSN 2504-3137.  https://doi.org/10.1159/000486015.

Background: Patient safety is both a parameter embedded within the quality of care and a priority of health systems. The Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (SAQ) – Short Form 2006 is the most widely and rigorously validated instrument used to measure the patient's safety environment among health care providers. The goal of this study was to translate and culturally adapt this instrument within the Portuguese context, thus creating the version SAQ – Short Form 2006 PT. Materials and Methods: For the translation and cultural adaptation process, a methodological study was carried out based on the recommendations of Beaton et al. (Recommendations for the Cross-Cultural Adaptation of Health Status Measures, 2002), with the following steps: translation, synthesis, back translation, assessment by a committee of experts, pre-test, and submission of reports to the instrument's authors. Results: SAQ – Short Form 2006 was translated linguistically and culturally adapted to the new environment while maintaining consistency with the original version. The validity of its content was ensured by a committee of experts which ensured the semantic, idiomatic, experimental, and conceptual equivalence between the original instrument and the created version. Conclusion: The SAQ – Short Form 2006 was successfully translated and adapted to Portugal allowing its application in the Portuguese cultural context.

Palabras clave : Patient safety; Safety climate; Translation; Cultural adaptation; Safety Attitudes Questionnaire.

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