Instrument translation process: a methods review.

By Wantana Maneesriwongul, J. Dixon. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2004

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Subfields: Education, General Health Professions, Issues, ethics and legal aspects

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Fear of Cancer Recurrence Inventory: development and initial validation of a multidimensional measure of fear of cancer recurrence (2009, positive): “A forward–backward translation was used [26].”
Organizational Support and Adaptive Performance: The Revolving Structural Relationships between Job Crafting, Work Engagement, and Adaptive Performance (2020, methodology): “Forward- and backward-translation, explained by Maneesriwongul and Dixon [35], translated all measures into Korean, except a Korean version of the job crafting scale.”
Reliability and Validity of a Spanish Version of the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory (2006, methodology): “METHOD Systematic translation with adequacy checks is a critical step in preparing a reliable and valid instrument for use in a linguistically different population (Chang, Chau, & Holroyd, 1999; Maneesriwongul & Dixon, 2004; Sireci & Berbero-Glu, 2000; Yu, Lee, & Woo, 2004).”
Assessing the use of back translation: the shortcomings of back translation as a quality testing method (2017, background): “…disciplines, that list back translation as one of the recommended assessment methods (many of these guidelines are nicely summarized in Acquadro, Conway, Hareendran, & Aaronson, 2008; see also Beaton, Bombardier, Guillemin, & Bosi Ferraz, 2000; Maneesriwongul & Dixon, 2004; Wild et al., 2005).”
Exploring commitment and turnover intentions among teachers : What we can learn from Hong Kong teachers (2015, methodology): “…and the monolingual PI and one CoeI checked for accuracy of the English version translated from the Chinese, and through an iterative process involving the RA's and the PI and CoeI we arrived at consensus that the Chinese items reflected the English items closely (Maneesriwongul & Dixon, 2004).”
Multinational trials-recommendations on the translations required, approaches to using the same language in different countries, and the approaches to support pooling the data: the ISPOR Patient-Reported Outcomes Translation and Linguistic Validation Good Research Practices Task Force report. (2009, positive): “The next step is to ensure linguistic and cognitive equivalence of the PRO concepts being measured (using appropriate linguistic and cultural adaptation methods, see section 2). Methods for these have been discussed in the literature [1,2, 12 ].”
Literature review of methods to translate health-related quality of life questionnaires for use in multinational clinical trials. (2008, methodology): “Although, as a result of the lack of scientific evidence in favor of one specific method of translation we could not identify a “best bet” method, we strongly advise researchers to adopt a multistep approach to ensure quality [ 53 ].”
Validation of the Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument: An Application of the Korean Version (2010, background): “Inappropriate translation processes often result in a biased, inconclusive, or misguided research outcomes (Maneesriwongul & Dixon, 2004).”
Teachers’ Commitment and psychological well-being: implications of self-beliefs for teaching in Hong Kong (2015, methodology): “The Chinese version of the scale had been translated from the English using forward and backward translation procedures (Maneesriwongul & Dixon, 2004).”
Existential fulfillment and burnout among principals and teachers (2008, methodology): “Back‐translation is the most highly recommended technique for translation in cross‐cultural research (Maneesriwongul and Dixon 2004 ).”