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Cultural adaptation and translation of the woman abuse screening tool Adaptación del instrumento WAST para la detección de violencia doméstica en Centros de Salud
Fecha
2018Registro en:
Revista Medica de Chile, Volumen 146, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 331-340
07176163
00349887
10.4067/s0034-98872018000300331
Autor
Binfa Esbir, Lorena
Cancino, Valentina
Ugarte, Isaac
Mella, Maribel
Cavada Chacón, Gabriel
Institución
Resumen
© 2018, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All Rights reserved.Background: The Woman Abuse Screening Tool (WAST) is a screening tool for domestic violence used in Unites States. Aim: To carry out the cultural adaptation of the WAST instrument for early detection of domestic violence in primary health care. Material and Methods: Qualitative techniques for cultural adaptation were used in stages 1 and 2 and quantitative techniques were used in stage 3. The validity of content was assessed using judge tests carried out with experts in the field. Linguistic adaptation was carried out using a focal group technique to ensure semantic and language comprehension. Finally, the culturally adapted instrument was applied to 16 women who were victims of violence and to 28 women without a history of violence. Results: For cultural adaptation, the judges’ test added the item of economic violence to the instrument. According to the focus groups, some words were changed to facilitate understanding by the sub