Cross-cultural adaptation of the Parcours Amoureux des Jeunes - PAJ inventory of Canadian origin to the Brazilian context

• Published in: Ciência & saude coletiva Vol. 20; no. 11; pp. 3417 - 3426
• Main Authors: Nascimento, Ohana Cunha do, Costa, Maria Conceição Oliveira, Freitas, Kátia Santana, Hebért, Martine, Moreau, Catherine
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English; Spanish
• Published: Brazil Associacao Brasileira de Pos-Graduacao em Saude Coletiva - ABRASCO 01.11.2015; Associação Brasileira de Saúde Coletiva
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Brazil; Canada; Content analysis; Cross cultural studies; Cross-Cultural Comparison; Female; Humans; Interpersonal Relations; Male; Reproducibility of Results; Surveys and Questionnaires; Teenagers; Validation studies; Validity; Violence; Young Adult; Brasil
• ISSN: 1413-8123; 1678-4561
• DOI: 10.1590/1413-812320152011.02912015

Analyzing violent events in the amorous trajectory of young people mobilizes researchers worldwide. The scope of this study is to perform the cross-cultural adaptation and content validation of the Canadian Parcours Amoureux des Jeunes (PAJ) inventory in the Brazilian context. It is a methodological study with the following steps: (a) translation and back-translation; (b) committee of experts (10) for analysis of equivalence, clarity and matching percentages; (c) calculation of the Content Validity Index / CVI. This analysis generated Pilot version III (d) submitted to a pre-test group of 36 adolescents aged 14 to 24 of both sexes to obtain cultural, conceptual, semantic and idiomatic equivalence. The PAJ showed adequate content validity (CVI 0.97). In section 1 (sociodemographic aspects of youths and families inherent to the Canadian context), the questions were appropriate to the Brazilian context shown by the low value of the CVI. Cross-cultural adaptation and content validation processes showed that the PAJ had adequate clarity and equivalence properties. This step makes it viable to conduct psychometric analysis to assess the replicability and reliability of the instrument to be applied in the Brazilian context.