Cross-cultural adaptation of the Richmond Agitation-Sedation Scale to Brazilian Portuguese for the evaluation of sedation in pediatric intensive care.

Letícia Massaud-Ribeiro Maria Clara de Magalhães BarbosaAnderson Gonçalves PanissetJaqueline Rodrigues RobainaFernanda Lima-SettaArnaldo Prata BarbosaAntonio José Ledo Alves da Cunha

Published in: Revista Brasileira de terapia intensiva (2021)

The cross-cultural adaptation of RASS to Brazilian Portuguese resulted in a version with excellent comprehensibility and acceptability in a pediatric intensive care setting. Reliability and validity studies should be performed to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Brazilian Portuguese version of the RASS.

Keyphrases

psychometric properties
mechanical ventilation
intensive care unit
case control
acute respiratory distress syndrome