Cross-cultural adaptation of the Toronto Western Spasmodic Torticollis Rating Scale (TWSTRS) to Brazilian Portuguese
Cervical dystonia (CD) is a prevalent and incapacitating movement disorder which needs a thorough clinical evaluation of every patient to better tailor treatment strategies. In Brazil, there are no validated CD scales that measure the burden of dystonia. The aim of our study was to translate and ada...
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| description | Cervical dystonia (CD) is a prevalent and incapacitating movement disorder which needs a thorough clinical evaluation of every patient to better tailor treatment strategies. In Brazil, there are no validated CD scales that measure the burden of dystonia. The aim of our study was to translate and adapt the Toronto Western Spasmodic Torticollis Rating Scale (TWSTRS) to Brazilian Portuguese. After translation and back-translation according to international methods, a pre-test was carried out with 30 patients. Patients under 8 years of formal schooling had severe difficulty in understanding the whole scale. The scale went through a remodeling process, without loss of its conceptual and semantic properties. The new scale was tested in 15 patients, with good understanding scores. We are now in the process of validation of the adapted scale. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-654d37f7e7f246a4ac264afbde017bce2025-08-20T02:06:39ZengThieme Revinter PublicaçõesArquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria1678-42272011-01-01692b31631910.1590/S0004-282X2011000300009S0004-282X2011000300009Cross-cultural adaptation of the Toronto Western Spasmodic Torticollis Rating Scale (TWSTRS) to Brazilian PortugueseF A Sekeff-Sallem0P Caramelli1E R Barbosa2Universidade de São PauloUniversidade Federal de Minas GeraisUniversidade de São PauloCervical dystonia (CD) is a prevalent and incapacitating movement disorder which needs a thorough clinical evaluation of every patient to better tailor treatment strategies. In Brazil, there are no validated CD scales that measure the burden of dystonia. The aim of our study was to translate and adapt the Toronto Western Spasmodic Torticollis Rating Scale (TWSTRS) to Brazilian Portuguese. After translation and back-translation according to international methods, a pre-test was carried out with 30 patients. Patients under 8 years of formal schooling had severe difficulty in understanding the whole scale. The scale went through a remodeling process, without loss of its conceptual and semantic properties. The new scale was tested in 15 patients, with good understanding scores. We are now in the process of validation of the adapted scale.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2011000300009&lng=en&tlng=endistonia cervicalescalasadaptação trans-cultural |
| spellingShingle | F A Sekeff-Sallem P Caramelli E R Barbosa Cross-cultural adaptation of the Toronto Western Spasmodic Torticollis Rating Scale (TWSTRS) to Brazilian Portuguese Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria distonia cervical escalas adaptação trans-cultural |
| title | Cross-cultural adaptation of the Toronto Western Spasmodic Torticollis Rating Scale (TWSTRS) to Brazilian Portuguese |
| title_full | Cross-cultural adaptation of the Toronto Western Spasmodic Torticollis Rating Scale (TWSTRS) to Brazilian Portuguese |
| title_fullStr | Cross-cultural adaptation of the Toronto Western Spasmodic Torticollis Rating Scale (TWSTRS) to Brazilian Portuguese |
| title_full_unstemmed | Cross-cultural adaptation of the Toronto Western Spasmodic Torticollis Rating Scale (TWSTRS) to Brazilian Portuguese |
| title_short | Cross-cultural adaptation of the Toronto Western Spasmodic Torticollis Rating Scale (TWSTRS) to Brazilian Portuguese |
| title_sort | cross cultural adaptation of the toronto western spasmodic torticollis rating scale twstrs to brazilian portuguese |
| topic | distonia cervical escalas adaptação trans-cultural |
| url | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2011000300009&lng=en&tlng=en |
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