Abstract

MINOSSO, Jéssica Sponton Moura; MARTINS, Maria Manuela Ferreira Pereira da Silva  and  OLIVEIRA, Maria Amélia de Campos. Cross-cultural adaptation of the Bonn Palliative Care Knowledge Test: an instrument to assess knowledge and self-efficacy. Rev. Enf. Ref. [online]. 2017, vol.serIV, n.13, pp.31-42. ISSN 0874-0283.  https://doi.org/10.12707/RIV16076.

Background: Palliative care (PC) improves the quality of life of people with advanced disease and optimizes the use of health-related resources. However, health professionals' lack of knowledge about PC may become a barrier to its availability. Nursing requires instruments that can identify possible gaps in this set of knowledge, both in PC practice and teaching. Objectives: To promote the cross-cultural adaptation of the Bonner Palliativwissenstest (BPW) to measure undergraduate students and nurses' knowledge and self-efficacy beliefs about PC in Portugal. Methodology: A 6-step methodological study was conducted with 60 participants in the pretest stage. Results: The procedures promoted semantic, idiomatic, cultural, and conceptual equivalences. The pretest confirmed the understanding and acceptability of the elaborated version. The mean score was similar to that found in the original study. Conclusion: The Portuguese version of the BPW showed an adequate equivalence to the original instrument.

Keywords : palliative care; clinical competence; professional practice; hospice and palliative care nursing; education, nursing.

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