Cross-cultural adaptation to Brazilian Portuguese of the Michigan Neuropathy Screening Instrument: MNSI-Brazil

Abstract: Since 1994, the University of Michigan Diabetes Research and Training Center proposed an instrument to measure neuropathies not yet adapted to use in Brazil. Then, this study aimed to adapt cross-culturally the Michigan Neuropathy Screening Instrument (MNSI) into Brazilian Portuguese, verifying its reliability. Thirty diabetic patients were initially evaluated with the adapted version after completed the essential steps to accomplish the cross-cultural adaptation. Twenty-two of them completed the procedures to repeat the measured scores after day 1 (trial 0). The repeated measurements were tested at days 2 or 3 (trial 1) by another rater (inter-rater reliability) and retested at day 20 (trial 2) by one of the attended raters (inter-test reliability). There were not great semantics, linguistics or cultural differences between two versions and excellent reliability was confirmed by intra-class correlation coefficient above 0.840. It was concluded that MNSI in the Brazilian version is reliable and it is ready to use.

Object Details

• Alternative title: Adaptação transcultural para o português brasileiro do Michigan Neuropathy Screening Instrument: MNSI-Brasil
• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Cross-cultural adaptation to Brazilian Portuguese of the Michigan Neuropathy Screening Instrument: MNSI-Brazil ; volume:74 ; number:08 ; year:2016 ; pages:653-661 ; Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria ; 74, Heft 08 (2016), 653-661

Contributors, Places and Time

• Contributor: Oliveira, Franassis Barbosa de ; Botelho, Kárenn Klycia Pereira ; Bezerra, Arthur Rodrigues ; Azevedo, Diego Igor de Oliveira ; Santos-Couto-Paz, Clarissa Cardoso dos ; Fachin-Martins, Emerson

Further information

• DOI: 10.1590/0004-282X20160094
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023101912355817096199
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Last update: 14.08.2025, 10:55 AM CEST