Translation into Spanish and cultural adaptation of a questionnaire to evaluate the satisfaction of patients undergoing regional anesthesia.

OBJECTIVE

Here are few questionnaires focused on regional anesthesia that have been validated and culturally adapted to the target population, so the objective is to translate, culturally adapt, and validate the original French questionnaire Evaluation de la satisfaction des patients ayant bénéficié d'une anesthésie locorégionale par bloc nerveux périphérique into the Spanish language in Mexico.

METHOD: The translation, cultural adaptation and validation of the questionnaire was carried out using the Quality-of-Life Special Interest Group (QoL-SIG) - Translation and Cultural Adaptation Group (TCA Group) method. The quality of the translation and the applicability of the questionnaire were evaluated, and its reliability and stability were estimated.

RESULTS

The response rate was 100%. Each questionnaire takes less than 5 minutes. The Spearman and intraclass correlation coefficient between the two evaluations carried out for the ordinal responses was 1 (p < 0.001). The responses were constant in the dichotomous responses, except in response 3.1, with a kappa index and phi coefficient of 1 (p < 0.001).

CONCLUSIONS

The questionnaire translated and culturally adapted to Spanish in Mexico is a valid, reliable, simple, and easy-to-use tool to evaluate the satisfaction of patients undergoing regional anesthesia.