Cross-Cultural Adaptation of the Assessment Tool the Short Child Occupational Profile (SCOPE) to Brazilian Portuguese

The Occupational Therapy evaluation is the first step in determining the intervention path and ensuring that the client has the greatest possible occupational participation. Te assessment Te Short Child Occupational Profile (SCOPE) is a tool that makes it possible to systematically assess factors that facilitate or restrict participation in the occupations of children and adolescents, and these factors are based on the Model of Human Occupation (MOHO). Te aim of the present study was to describe the methodological study of the cross-cultural adaptation of SCOPE to Brazilian Portuguese. Te methodological procedures involved the translation of the assessment into Portuguese and back-translation to English; analysis of semantic, idiomatic, conceptual and experiential equivalences by the Expert Committee; verification of clarity and understanding of the instrument through a Pre-Test to consolidate the final version and approval by the main author of the original assessment. Te translation and back-translation processes showed few discrepancies between the terms, obtaining good resolution among the translators for the preparation of the synthesis. All suggestions for changes by the Expert Committee were analyzed and duly incorporated into the preliminary version of the instrument, which, in the Pre-Test stage, showed good or excellent understanding of sentences by the participants. Te Brazilian version of SCOPE was approved by the main author of the original assessment. Success was achieved in the process of cross-cultural adaptation of the assessment tool for Brazil, currently entitled: Initial Occupational Profile of Children and Adolescents (SCOPE-Brasil), being able to undergo further studies to obtain psychometric validation measures with the Brazilian population.