Background: The Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit was developed to measure outcomes of social care in
England. In this study, we translated the four level self-completion version (SCT-4) of the ASCOT for use in the
Netherlands and performed a cross-cultural validation.
Methods: The ASCOT SCT-4 was translated into Dutch following international guidelines, including two forward
and back translations. The resulting version was pilot tested among frail older adults using think-aloud interviews.
Furthermore, using a subsample of the Dutch ACT-study, we investigated test-retest reliability and construct validity
and compared response distributions with data from a comparable English study.
Results: The pilot tests showed that translated items were in general understood as intended, that most items
were reliable, and that the response distributions of the Dutch translation and associations with other measures
were comparable to the original English version. Based on the results of the pilot tests, some small modifications
and a revision of the Dignity items were proposed for the final translation, which were approved by the ASCOT
development team. The complete original English version and the final Dutch translation can be obtained after
registration on the ASCOT website (http://www.pssru.ac.uk/ascot).
Conclusions: This study provides preliminary evidence that the Dutch translation of the ASCOT is valid, reliable and
comparable to the original English version. We recommend further research to confirm the validity of the modified
Dutch ASCOT translation. (authors' abstract)
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VIENNA/oai:epub.wu-wien.ac.at:4610 |
| Date | January 2015 |
| Creators | van Leeuwen, Karen, Bosmans, Judith E., Jansen, Aaltje PD, Rand, Stacey E., Towers, Ann-Marie, Smith, Nick, Razik, Kamilla, Trukeschitz, Birgit, van Tulder, Maurits W, van der Horst, Henriette E., Ostelo, Raymond |
| Publisher | BioMed Central |
| Source Sets | Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Article, PeerReviewed |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) |
| Relation | http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12955-015-0249-x, http://www.biomedcentral.com/, http://epub.wu.ac.at/4610/ |
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