TY - JOUR
T1 - Translation to Portuguese and cultural validation of the Empowerment Assessment Rating Scale
AU - Melo, Pedro
AU - Sousa, Isabel
AU - Pinto, Carlos
AU - Teixeira, Alice
AU - Pereira, Alexandra
AU - Sousa, Sergio
AU - Fernandes, Catarina
AU - Ferreira, Amélia
AU - Cardoso, Teresa
AU - Ferreira, Luísa Vale
AU - Maciel, Candida
AU - Freitas, Cláudia Telles de
AU - Santos, Sandra
AU - Pinto, Dulce
AU - Dimande, Matilde
PY - 2020/1
Y1 - 2020/1
N2 - Introduction vertical bar To assess the level of community empowerment, Laverack proposes an instrument called the Empowerment Assessment Rating Scale (EARS), which has nine assessment domains related to community empowerment. Objectives vertical bar Translate to Portuguese and culturally validate the EARS for an ACeS community, a hospital community, a business community, and a school community. A review of the Portuguese translation was developed, a review group was set up to analyze the resulting document, by consensus a new scale called the Escala de Avaliacao do Empoderamento Comunitario (EAvEC) was developed, and the retroversion was developed. Same review group conducted a new evaluation of the resulting version, comparing them with the original in English. The study was carried out at a Hospital in the Azores Archipelago, three Health Centers Organizations in the North of Portugal, an Education-oriented Company in Greater Porto and a School Community in Mozambique, where the focus group scale was applied based on a problematic chosen for intervention. Results vertical bar EVaEC retained the nine evaluation domains of the original scale and its translated version did not change after its cultural adaptation. The level of community empowerment was identified in each of the communities, analyzed in the form of a radar chart, with the clustered image of all domains. Discussion / Conclusions vertical bar EVaEC is a useful tool for community intervention and is being used to assess community empowerment in the MAIEC project of theCentre for Interdisciplinary Research in Health at Universidade Catolica Portuguesa.
AB - Introduction vertical bar To assess the level of community empowerment, Laverack proposes an instrument called the Empowerment Assessment Rating Scale (EARS), which has nine assessment domains related to community empowerment. Objectives vertical bar Translate to Portuguese and culturally validate the EARS for an ACeS community, a hospital community, a business community, and a school community. A review of the Portuguese translation was developed, a review group was set up to analyze the resulting document, by consensus a new scale called the Escala de Avaliacao do Empoderamento Comunitario (EAvEC) was developed, and the retroversion was developed. Same review group conducted a new evaluation of the resulting version, comparing them with the original in English. The study was carried out at a Hospital in the Azores Archipelago, three Health Centers Organizations in the North of Portugal, an Education-oriented Company in Greater Porto and a School Community in Mozambique, where the focus group scale was applied based on a problematic chosen for intervention. Results vertical bar EVaEC retained the nine evaluation domains of the original scale and its translated version did not change after its cultural adaptation. The level of community empowerment was identified in each of the communities, analyzed in the form of a radar chart, with the clustered image of all domains. Discussion / Conclusions vertical bar EVaEC is a useful tool for community intervention and is being used to assess community empowerment in the MAIEC project of theCentre for Interdisciplinary Research in Health at Universidade Catolica Portuguesa.
KW - Community health nursing
KW - Public health nursing
KW - Community participation
KW - Empowerment
M3 - Article
VL - 43
SP - 441
EP - 446
JO - Revista Rol de Enfermería
JF - Revista Rol de Enfermería
SN - 0210-5020
IS - 1
ER -