Translation and Cultural Adaptation into Spanish of the Engagement in Meaningful Activities Survey.
Fernández-Solano Ana Judit, Merchán-Baeza Jose Antonio, Rodriguez-Bailón Maria and 1 others
PMID 35414804WHAT IT FOUND
The Spanish version of the Engagement in Meaningful Activities Survey is now ready for testing.
Ten native speakers understood all 12 items without major changes, but the tool has not yet been validated for reliability or accuracy in clinical groups.
Key findings
01The translation followed the ISPOR ten-step process, including forward and backward translation, harmonization with French and Polish versions, and cognitive debriefing.
02During cognitive debriefing with ten native Spanish speakers, no major revisions were required because understanding of all 12 items was full or nearly full.
03The Spanish version is currently undergoing validation with healthy people; psychometric properties like reliability and construct validity are not yet established.
STILL TO COME
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What it does not show
Cognitive debriefing was done with healthy professionals and students, not with patients who have cognitive or comprehension difficulties. The sample for debriefing was small (n=10). The tool has not yet been statistically validated for reliability or construct validity in any population. The previous Spanish version (Prat et al.) was not compared directly in this study, only discussed in the literature.
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The easy way to misread this
Do not use this Spanish version in clinical practice yet. The paper reports only that the translation process was completed and understood by healthy adults; it does not provide evidence that the tool accurately measures meaningful engagement in patients or has valid psychometric properties.