TY - JOUR
T1 - Cultural relevance and equivalence in the NLAAS instrument
T2 - Integrating etic and emic in the development of cross-cultural measures for a psychiatric epidemiology and services study of Latinos
AU - Alegria, Margarita
AU - Vila, Doryliz
AU - Woo, Meghan
AU - Canino, Glorisa
AU - Takeuchi, David
AU - Vera, Mildred
AU - Febo, Vivian
AU - Guarnaccia, Peter
AU - Aguilar-Gaxiola, Sergio
AU - Shrout, Patrick
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - This paper describes the development, translation and adaptation of measures in the National Latino and Asian American Study (NLAAS). We Summarize the techniques used to attain Cultural relevance; semantic, content and technical equivalency; and internal consistency of the measures across languages and Latino sub-ethnic groups. We also discuss some of the difficulties and challenges encountered in doing this work. The following three main goals are addressed in this paper: (1) attaining cultural relevance by formulating the research problem with attention to the fundamental cultural and contextual differences of Latinos and Asians as compared to the mainstream population; (2) developing cultural equivalence in the standardized instruments to be used with these populations; and (3) assessing the generalizability of the measures - i.e., that the measures do not fluctuate according to culture or translation. We present details of the processes and steps used to achieve these three goals in developing measures for the Latino population. Additionally, the integration of both the etic and emic perspectives in the instrument adaptation model is presented.
AB - This paper describes the development, translation and adaptation of measures in the National Latino and Asian American Study (NLAAS). We Summarize the techniques used to attain Cultural relevance; semantic, content and technical equivalency; and internal consistency of the measures across languages and Latino sub-ethnic groups. We also discuss some of the difficulties and challenges encountered in doing this work. The following three main goals are addressed in this paper: (1) attaining cultural relevance by formulating the research problem with attention to the fundamental cultural and contextual differences of Latinos and Asians as compared to the mainstream population; (2) developing cultural equivalence in the standardized instruments to be used with these populations; and (3) assessing the generalizability of the measures - i.e., that the measures do not fluctuate according to culture or translation. We present details of the processes and steps used to achieve these three goals in developing measures for the Latino population. Additionally, the integration of both the etic and emic perspectives in the instrument adaptation model is presented.
KW - Cultural equivalence
KW - Cultural relevance
KW - Ethnicity
KW - Instrument translation
KW - Latinos
KW - NLAAS
KW - National Latino and Asian American Study
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U2 - 10.1002/mpr.181
DO - 10.1002/mpr.181
M3 - Article
C2 - 15719532
AN - SCOPUS:10244261499
SN - 1049-8931
VL - 13
SP - 270
EP - 288
JO - International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research
JF - International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research
IS - 4
ER -