PMID: 19944041Dec 1, 2009Paper

CAMDEX-R and dementia diagnosis in Brazil: translation and transcultural adaptation of the informant interview

Acta Médica Portuguesa
Simone Garruth Sampaio, Roberto Alves Lourenço

Abstract

The Cambridge Examination for Mental Disorders of the Elderly - revised (CAMDEX-R) is an instrument developed in England and used as an aid to the diagnosis of dementia, mainly in its initial forms. It contains nine sections (named from A to I), including a neuropsychological evaluation and an interview with an informant (section H). This kind of interview has proved to be useful in the detection of dementia. To translate and transculturally adapt to Brazilian Portuguese the section H of CAMDEX-R. The section under study is a structured interview, composed by 130 items, applied to an informant aiming at diagnosing a demential state. The study was conducted by the universalist approach, with evaluation of conceptual, item, semantic and operational equivalences. Two independent translations into Portuguese were done by two bilingual Brazilians. Those were backtranslated into English by two bilingual Americans, also independently, without knowing the original version. From the translations, backtranslations and original text, another bilingual Brazilian suggested a synthesis-version. Based on the synthesis-version, a multidisciplinary group of two geriatricians and two gerontologists made the test-version with the transcultural ad...Continue Reading

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