Abstract
Objective:to translate and culturally adapt the Risk assessment and management of exposure of health care workers in the context of covid-19 questionnaire to the Brazilian context and to develop and evaluate a sociodemographic and occupational characterization questionnaire to compose the adapted questionnaire.Method:five stages were conducted to adapt the Risk assessment and management of exposure of health care workers in the context of covid-19 questionnaire, namely: translation, synthesis of the translations, evaluation by a committee of judges, back translation and pre-test. As for the complementary questionnaire, it was elaborated and evaluated by a committee of judges and a pre-test was carried out.Results:the questionnaires were validated and the pre-test stage was conducted with health workers and students.Conclusion:the final version adapted to the Brazilian context was called Questionário de avaliação de risco e gestão da exposição de trabalhadores e estudantes de saúde no contexto da covid-19 and is available for use, together with the final version of the Sociodemographic and occupational questionnaire: Risk assessment and management of exposure of health care workers and students in the context of covid-19. These questionnaires may assist in mitigating the risks of infection, illness and death of health workers and students due to covid-19.
Highlights
Health workers, as well as undergraduates in this area, suffer the various occupational risks constantly evidenced by scientific research studies carried out in different countries[1,2,3,4,5,6]
The adjustments resulting from this stage were implemented by the researchers, which resulted in the final versions of the questionnaires: 1) Final Version in Portuguese (FVP) of the Risk assessment and management of exposure of health care workers in the context of COVID-19 questionnaire, translated and adapted to the Brazilian context for health workers and students, called Questionário de avaliação de risco e gestão da exposição de trabalhadores e estudantes de saúde no contexto da covid-19; and 2) final version of the Sociodemographic and occupational questionnaire: Risk assessment and management of exposure of health care workers and students in the context of covid-19
During the process of translating and culturally adapting the Risk assessment and management of exposure of health care workers in the context of covid-19 questionnaire to the Brazilian context, changes were made to the content of the questions in item 1 so that the questionnaire could be self-administered, facilitating data collection by researchers or health service managers, which resulted in the exclusion of items related to the interviewer’s data
Summary
As well as undergraduates in this area, suffer the various occupational risks constantly evidenced by scientific research studies carried out in different countries[1,2,3,4,5,6]. With the advance of the covid-19 pandemic, caused by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-related Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), there was an intensification in the exposure of health workers and students to occupational risks and an excessive increase in workload. In order to categorize the risk of health professionals after exposure to patients with covid-19 and allow for the management of cases, the World Health Organization (WHO) made available, in March 2020, a questionnaire entitled Risk assessment and management of exposure of health care workers in the context of covid-19(14). Given the need for the managers of health institutions to mitigate the occupational risks related to the pandemic caused by covid-19, the cultural adaptation of the Risk assessment and management of exposure of health care workers in the context of covid-19 questionnaire to the Brazilian context was conceived. The procedures related to the cultural adaptation of exploratory, clinimetric and psychometric questionnaires represent face and content validation stages, which must be conducted with the main objective of evaluating the meaning and relevance of the questionnaire items and their ability to assess the construct proposed with quality[15,16]
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