K-SADS-PL 2013 working draft diagnostic supplements translation and cross-cultural adaptation

Abstract

The objective of this study was to translate and cross-culturally adapt Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School-Aged Children (6 to 18 years) K-SADS PL Working Draft Diagnostic Supplements. The study was carried out in Rawalpindi/Islamabad from February 2016 to October 2016. The study followed translation and adaptation guidelines provided by World Health Organization and also incorporated some steps of the Brislin model to make the methodology rigorous. The steps include forward translation, committee approach, back-translation, pretesting and systematic debriefing. Expert panel consisted of seven bilingual individuals, who had experience in working with children. After the initial forward translations review several probes were reworded and rephrased to make them culturally relevant. The Urdu version thus obtained was then pretested on a sample of 12 children and 20 parents from Rawalpindi and Islamabad. Participants were systematically debriefed and cognitive interviewing was carried out. Input from these interviews was incorporated to obtain a final Urdu version of K-SADS Diagnostic Supplement. Further validation studies are however required to establish its psychometric properties as well as to establish its cultural equivalence.