Guidelines for the Process of Cross-Cultural Adaptation of Self-Report Measures
SpinePublished 1 December 2000
Dorcas Beaton, Claire Bombardier, Françis Guillemin, Marcos Bosi Ferraz
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The guidelines described in this document are based on a review of cross-cultural adaptation in the medical, sociological, and psychological literature and led to the description of a thorough adaptation process designed to maximize the attainment of semantic, idiomatic, experiential, and conceptual equivalence between the source and target questionnaires.
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Beaton, Dorcas E. BScOT, MSc, PhD; Bombardier, Claire MD, FRCP; Guillemin, Francis MD, MSc; Ferraz, Marcos Bosi MD, MSc, PhD Author Information
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