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DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-1758863
Cultural adaptation and reliability assessment of the Hammersmith neonatal neurological examination for Brazilian newborns at risk of cerebral palsy
Adaptação cultural e avaliação da confiabilidade do exame neurológico neonatal de Hammersmith para recém-nascidos brasileiros com risco de paralisia cerebralAbstract
Background Reliable instruments that lead to early diagnosis for CP are extremely important so that these children are referred for early stimulation, benefiting their development.
Objective To perform a cross-cultural adaptation and reliability assessment of a Brazilian version of the Hammersmith Neonatal Neurological Examination (HNNE), expanded and summarized.
Methods A methodological, cross-sectional, nonexperimental quantitative analysis was conducted in two phases as follows: cultural adaptation of the HNNE, expanded and summarized, and reliability assessment of the Brazilian version of the HNNE. Phase one was developed in five stages (initial translation, synthesis of the translation, a committee of experts, backtranslation, and submission to the author), with the semantic questions, content, and face validity being evaluated. Phase two included 143 newborns and we analyzed the internal consistency, stability, and equivalence (intra- and interexaminer) of the instrument. Internal consistency was calculated using Cronbach's alpha, and intra- and interexaminer reliability and reproducibility assessed through test-retest were calculated using the intraclass correlation coefficient
Results Although internal consistency, assessed using Cronbach's alpha, showed unsatisfactory results, the results of inter-and intraexaminer equivalence showed a high agreement between the evaluations in all domains. The test-retest also showed excellent agreement between the domains.
Conclusions The Brazilian HNNE expanded and summarized versions can be considered to be adapted and reliable for the neurological assessment of Brazilian newborns to identify changes in neurological development and early referral to the stimulation or early rehabilitation units and as a promising option to be used in the context of primary care in Brazil.
Resumo
Antecedentes As avaliações neurológicas que levam ao diagnóstico precoce permitem o acesso oportuno à intervenção em um período em que os maiores ganhos são possíveis devido à neuroplasticidade.
Objetivos Realizar a adaptação transcultural e avaliação da confiabilidade da versão brasileira do Hammersmith Neonatal Neurological Examination (HNNE), ampliada e resumida.
Métodos Foi realizada análise quantitativa metodológica, transversal e não experimental em duas fases: adaptação cultural do HNNE, ampliada e resumida, e avaliação da confiabilidade da versão brasileira do HNNE. A primeira fase foi desenvolvida em cinco etapas (tradução inicial, síntese da tradução, comitê de especialistas, retrotradução e submissão ao autor), sendo avaliadas as questões semânticas, conteúdo e validade de face. A fase dois incluiu 143 recém-nascidos e foram analisadas a consistência interna, estabilidade e equivalência (intra e interexaminador) do instrumento. A consistência interna foi calculada pelo alfa de Cronbach, e a confiabilidade e reprodutibilidade intra e interexaminadores avaliadas por meio do teste-reteste foram calculadas pelo coeficiente de correlação intraclasse.
Resultados Embora a consistência interna, avaliada pelo alfa de Cronbach, tenha apresentado resultados insatisfatórios, os resultados da equivalência inter e intraexaminadores mostraram alta concordância entre as avaliações em todos os domínios. O teste-reteste também apresentou excelente concordância entre os domínios.
Conclusões As versões brasileiras ampliadas e resumidas do HNNE podem ser consideradas adaptadas e confiáveis para avaliação neurológica de recém-nascidos brasileiros por identificar alterações no desenvolvimento neurológico e encaminhamento precoce para unidades de estimulação ou reabilitação precoce e como uma opção promissora para uso no contexto da atenção básica no Brasil.
Authors' Contributions
MTC: main researcher; LIP: researcher and advisor.
Publication History
Received: 18 November 2021
Accepted: 08 May 2022
Article published online:
14 March 2023
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