INTRODUCTION: Most @entity5 @entity1 are treated with chemotherapy, and @entity1897 is a serious and common clinical problem affecting @entity1 undergoing @entity5 treatment. However, the symptoms are subjective and underdiagnosed by health professionals. Thus, it becomes necessary to develop self-report instruments to overcome this limitation and improve the @entity1 's perception about his medical condition or treatment. OBJECTIVE: Translate and culturally adapt the Brazilian version of the @entity158 Quality Assessment Scale, constituting a useful tool for assessing the quality of @entity9 in @entity5 @entity1 . METHOD: The procedure followed the steps of translation, back translation, analysis of Portuguese and English versions by a committee of judges, and pretest. Pretest was conducted with 30 @entity5 @entity1 undergoing chemotherapy following internationally recommended standards, and the final versions were compared and evaluated by a committee of researchers from Brazil and MAPI Research Trust, the scale's creators. RESULTS: Versions one and two showed 100% semantic equivalence with the original version. Back-translation showed difference between the linguistic translation and the original version. After evaluation by the committee of judges, a flaw was found in the empirical equivalence and idiomatic equivalence. In pretest, two @entity1 did not understand the item 12 of the scale, without interfering in the final elaboration. CONCLUSION: The translated and culturally adapted instrument is now presented in this publication, and currently it is in the process of clinical validation in Brazil.

Translation and transcultural adaptation of XXXX Quality Assessment Scale (PQAS) to brazilian version.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['patients', 'patient', 'people'] @entity5 :: ('MESH:D009369', 'Disease') :: ['cancer'] @entity1897 :: ('MESH:D010523', 'Disease') :: ['peripheral neuropathy'] @entity158 :: ('MESH:D010146', 'Disease') :: ['Pain'] @entity9 :: ('MESH:D009437', 'Disease') :: ['neuropathic pain']
@entity158 :: (MESH:D010146,Disease) :: ['Pain']
