Quality Information about Uterine Fibroids on the Internet by Daniela Gama de Melo, Pedro Sérgio Soares Jallad, Luiz Gustavo Oliveira Brito

“…Thus, we have performed a cross-sectional study with 381 websites in the English and Brazilian Portuguese languages between May and December 2017. …”
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Cross-cultural adaptation of the Brazilian version of the Dentine Hypersensitivity Experience Questionnaire (DHEQ-15) by Dhelfeson Willya Douglas-De-Oliveira, Frederico Santos Lages, Saul Martins Paiva, Jennifer Grace Cromley, Peter Glenn Robinson, Luís Otávio Miranda Cota

“…DHEQ-15 was cross-culturally adapted into the Brazilian-Portuguese language and then validated in a cross-sectional study with 100 participants recruited at a University clinic. …”
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The Auditory Processing Domains Questionnaire (APDQ): Brazilian–Portuguese version by Karin Ziliotto Dias, Cynthia Harumi Yokoyama, Maria Madalena Canina Pinheiro, Joel de Braga Junior, Liliane Desgualdo Pereira, Brian O’Hara

“…Objective: The present study aimed to determine the fidelity, reliability, and internal validity of the APDQ when translated from English to Brazilian–Portuguese language. Methods: The first phase included the APDQ translation into Brazilian–Portuguese including forward translation, translation assessment and back-translation in a group of 10 students. …”
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Pediatric Functional Constipation Questionnaire-Parent Report (PedFCQuest-PR): development and validation by Andrea Catherine Quiroz Gamarra, Mary de Assis Carvalho, Nilton Carlos Machado

“…Objective: Developing and validating a disease-specific instrument in the Brazilian Portuguese language to assess the Health-Related Quality of Life of children with functional constipation, applied to parents/caregivers. …”
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Words Similarities on Personalities: A Language-Based Generalization Approach for Personality Factors Recognition by Adriano Madureira Dos Santos, Flavio Rafael Trindade Moura, Lyanh Vinicios Lopes Pinto, Andre Vinicius Neves Alves, Karla Figueiredo, Fernando Augusto Ribeiro Costa, Marcos Cesar Da Rocha Seruffo

“…Therefore, this work aims to answer: (i) Whether Word Embeddings techniques could be used to solve low resources languages problems in FFM personality traits prediction; and (ii) Whether is feasible to train a traditional Machine Learning algorithm with English language textual data and evaluate its performance with Brazilian Portuguese language textual data for FFM personality traits prediction. …”
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Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the Karitane Parenting Confidence Scale of maternal confidence assessment for use in Brazil by Lívia W. Pereira, Juliana R. Bernardi, Salete de Matos, Clecio H. da Silva, Marcelo Z. Goldani, Vera L. Bosa

“…Objectives: To transculturally adapt and validate the Karitane Parenting Confidence Scale to the Brazilian Portuguese language and culture and verify the combination of the results with the maternal sociodemographic characteristics. …”
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Translation and validation of the drooling impact scale questionnaire into Brazilian Portuguese by Natália Silva Cavalcanti, Leo Sekine, Denise Manica, Maurício Farenzena, Cátia de Souza Saleh Neto, Paulo José Cauduro Marostica, Cláudia Schweiger

“…Conclusion: The drooling impact scale has been successfully translated to Brazilian Portuguese language, showing adequate internal validity. …”
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Pediatric incontinence questionnaire (PINQ): translation and transcultural adaptation to Brazilian Portuguese by Rita Pavione Rodrigues Pereira, Angélica Quintino Leitão, Gabriella Silva Fotakos, Joceara Neves dos Reis, Flávio Eduardo Trigo Rocha, Marcos Giannetti Machado, Wendy F. Bower, Clarice Tanaka

“…The assessment of emotional conditions of LUTS in children is recommended by International Children's Continence Society; however, there is no specific instrument in the Brazilian Portuguese language. Therefore, the aim of this study was to translate, culturally adapt and assess the internal consistency of the Brazilian Portuguese version of the Pediatric Incontinence Questionnaire (PINQ). …”
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