PMID- 20011161
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20091228
LR  - 20211020
IS  - 1488-2310 (Electronic)
IS  - 0008-428X (Print)
IS  - 0008-428X (Linking)
VI  - 52
IP  - 6
DP  - 2009 Dec
TI  - Translation of the Patient Scar Assessment Scale (PSAS) to French with 
      cross-cultural adaptation, reliability evaluation and validation.
PG  - E259-63
AB  - BACKGROUND: Patient esthetic satisfaction related to scarring after orthopedic 
      surgery was rarely assessed before the development of the Patient Scar Assessment 
      Scale (PSAS). The purpose of our study was to translate and validate the PSAS and 
      assess the psychometric properties of the French version. METHODS: We conducted a 
      staged validation with forward and backward translation and concurrent 
      validation. The validation committee comrpised bilingual experts. The patient 
      validation sample comprised 53 orthopedic surgery patients who were assessed at a 
      minimum of 1 year postoperatively. We followed a standardized process for 
      cross-cultural adaptation to develop and assess the French version. First, 2 
      independent translators completed the forward translation of the PSAS and then 
      met to achieve a consensus version. This consolidated version was then backward 
      translated into English and cross-verified with the original version. A group of 
      orthopedic and plastic surgeons assessed this version for content validity. We 
      assessed the test-retest reliability of the new French scale, which was filled 
      out twice by a cohort of 53 patients, using scale distribution analysis, internal 
      consistency (Chronbach alpha) and absolute agreement (intraclass correlation 
      coefficients [ICC (2,1)]). RESULTS: The level of agreement on the translation 
      process between the translators initially and then later among the expert panel 
      was high. The reliability of the translated version (PSAS-Fr) and its internal 
      consistency was high (Chronback alpha 0.87-0.98 for each of the 6 questions), and 
      the test-retest reliability was excellent (ICC 0.96). On the other hand, there 
      was no bias between occasions (retests difference -0.24) and the scores fell 
      within 2 standard deviations of 5. Older patients had higher satisfaction about 
      scar appearance. CONCLUSION: The PSAS-Fr was successfully translated from the 
      original English version and demonstrated strong cross-sectional psychometric 
      properties. Further assessment in longitudinal studies is warranted.
FAU - Deslauriers, Valerie
AU  - Deslauriers V
AD  - Faculty of Medicine, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Que.
FAU - Rouleau, Dominique M
AU  - Rouleau DM
FAU - Alami, Ghassan
AU  - Alami G
FAU - MacDermid, Joy C
AU  - MacDermid JC
LA  - eng
GR  - Canadian Institutes of Health Research/Canada
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PT  - Validation Study
PL  - Canada
TA  - Can J Surg
JT  - Canadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgie
JID - 0372715
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adult
MH  - Aged
MH  - Burns/*complications
MH  - Cicatrix/*diagnosis/etiology
MH  - *Cross-Cultural Comparison
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - *Psychometrics
MH  - Reproducibility of Results
MH  - Translating
MH  - Young Adult
PMC - PMC2792396
EDAT- 2009/12/17 06:00
MHDA- 2009/12/29 06:00
PMCR- 2009/12/01
CRDT- 2009/12/17 06:00
PHST- 2009/02/02 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2009/12/17 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2009/12/17 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2009/12/29 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2009/12/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 052e259 [pii]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Can J Surg. 2009 Dec;52(6):E259-63.