Fernando Faleiros de Oliveira1, Liliana Andolpho Magalhães Guimarães1, João Massuda-Junior1, Rodrigo Bornhausen Demarch2,3,4, Alfredo Almeida Pina-Oliveira5, Angela Cristina Yano3, Marcia Bandini6, Alberto Jose Niituma Ogata3. 1. Graduate Psychology Program, Universidade Católica Dom Bosco - Campo Grande (MS), Brazil. 2. Health and Innovation Board, Mantris Gestão em Saúde Corporativa - São Paulo (SP), Brazil. 3. Technical Committee of Workplace Health Promotion, National Association of Occupational Medicine - São Paulo (SP), Brazil. 4. Technical Committee of Preventive Medicine, Brazilian Association of Preventive Medicine and Health Administration - São Paulo (SP), Brazil. 5. Graduate Nursing Program, Universidade Guarulhos - Guarulhos (SP), Brazil. 6. National Association of Occupational Medicine - São Paulo (SP), Brazil.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Broad-encompassing approaches to the evaluation, documentation and discussion of workplace health assets are needed to implement effective interventions and promote health and well-being among workers through effective efforts in programs and initiatives to maintain and improve workplace health and safety. OBJECTIVE: To perform the cross-cultural adaptation of the Indicators of Integration (II) scorecard to the Brazilian Portuguese language to enable its use in Brazil and thus provide organizations a means to evaluate the integration of workers' health and well-being programs, policies and practices. METHODS: We followed scientific recommendations described in previous studies and carried out the process of adaptation along six steps: translation, reconciliation of translations, back translation into the original language, revision of the Portuguese version by an internal expert committee, pretest with an expert panel, and final review. RESULTS: The methods applied resulted in an adequate instrument for self-evaluation of the integration of workers' health and well-being programs and practices in organizations; the adapted version conserves the properties of the original. CONCLUSION: The Brazilian version of the II scorecard - entitled Indicadores Integrados de Práticas de Saúde na Organização (IIPSO) - obtained in the present study is appropriate to be administered and to measure the implementation and integration of health, safety and well-being actions.
BACKGROUND: Broad-encompassing approaches to the evaluation, documentation and discussion of workplace health assets are needed to implement effective interventions and promote health and well-being among workers through effective efforts in programs and initiatives to maintain and improve workplace health and safety. OBJECTIVE: To perform the cross-cultural adaptation of the Indicators of Integration (II) scorecard to the Brazilian Portuguese language to enable its use in Brazil and thus provide organizations a means to evaluate the integration of workers' health and well-being programs, policies and practices. METHODS: We followed scientific recommendations described in previous studies and carried out the process of adaptation along six steps: translation, reconciliation of translations, back translation into the original language, revision of the Portuguese version by an internal expert committee, pretest with an expert panel, and final review. RESULTS: The methods applied resulted in an adequate instrument for self-evaluation of the integration of workers' health and well-being programs and practices in organizations; the adapted version conserves the properties of the original. CONCLUSION: The Brazilian version of the II scorecard - entitled Indicadores Integrados de Práticas de Saúde na Organização (IIPSO) - obtained in the present study is appropriate to be administered and to measure the implementation and integration of health, safety and well-being actions.
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Keywords:
occupational health; surveys and questionnaires; translating; working conditions
Authors: Glorian Sorensen; Deborah McLellan; Jack T Dennerlein; Nicolaas P Pronk; Jennifer D Allen; Leslie I Boden; Cassandra A Okechukwu; Dean Hashimoto; Anne Stoddard; Gregory R Wagner Journal: J Occup Environ Med Date: 2013-12 Impact factor: 2.162