1. TRADUÇÃO E VALIDAÇÃO DE UM QUESTIONÁRIO DE AVALIAÇÃO COMPORTAMENTAL EM CÃES (C-BARQ) PARA O PORTUGUÊS.
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Arnt Rosa, Stella, Jarrel, Logan, Marques Soares, Guilherme, and Leal Paixão, Rita
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The study of behavioral problems in dogs is important due to the frequency of their occurrence and the negative impact they have upon the quality of life of the dogs and members of the human family. Despite this, in Brazil we do not currently have many valid standardized tools for the diagnosis and measurement of these problems, making both clinical practice and research difficult. The objective of this work is to validate the translation of the C-BARQ questionnaire into Portuguese (already validated in its original language: English). For this, we utilized the method of translation and back-translation, in which the original questionnaire is translated into Portuguese, and then the same is back-translated into English. This method is based on the fact that the greater the similarities are between the two English versions, the greater the semantic equivalence between the original version in English and the translated version in Portuguese. Comparing the versions in English after the first translation, of 112 items, only 3 did not present semantic correspondence. These discrepancies were resolved, retranslated, and compared again. Upon the second comparison, none of the items were classified as "not correspondent", therefore, after the corrections to the translated version were considered valid, 49 items (43.8%) were classified as "partially correspondent", and 63 (56.3%) items as "completely correspondent". The valid translation of the C-BARQ questionnaire to Portuguese allows this instrument to be applied with reliability in Brazil. It can then be adopted as a standardized tool for the diagnosis and measurement of behavioral problems in dogs, facilitating the practice of clinical ethology and contributing to the advancement of knowledge in behavioral research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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