Cultural adaptation and reliability of the General Comfort Questionnaire for chronic renal patients in Brazil.
Geórgia Alcântara Alencar Melo, Renan Alves Silva, Francisco Gilberto Fernandes Pereira and 1 others
PMID 29267542WHAT IT FOUND
All 80 hemodialysis patients found the adapted comfort questionnaire easy to understand, and nurses can use it to guide comfort care.
Key findings
01The translated version reached 94.3% general equivalence before judges reviewed it.
02All 80 hemodialysis patients considered the questionnaire easy to understand.
03The questionnaire’s items worked together well enough to be considered reliable, with a score of 0.80.
STILL TO COME
How it was doneWhat they foundWhat it means for RNs
Read the rest of this summary
You get three full summaries a month, free, and we do not ask for a card. Search, the TL;DRs and your library stay unlimited either way.
What it does not show
Patients were all from one private hemodialysis clinic in Patos-PB, so the results may not apply to other clinics or kidney patients with different backgrounds. The study did not test how the items map to the comfort dimensions, and clinical validation is planned for later work. Five percent of patients needed an explanation of a term, and interviews were used instead of self-report because many patients had low schooling.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read this as proof that using the questionnaire improves patient comfort or care outcomes. It only shows the adapted version was understandable and produced consistent scores in 80 patients at one clinic.