Validity and reliability of the transculturally adapted Spanish version of the Implementation Leadership Scale (ILS).

Background: There is a need for pragmatic and reliable measures of sound factors that affect evidence-based practice (EBP) adoption and implementation in different languages and cultural environments. The Implementation Leadership Scale (ILS) is a brief and efficient measurement tool of strategic leadership for EBP implementation. The objective of this study was to assess the psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the ILS.

Family needs in caregivers of individuals with traumatic brain injury from Colombia, South America.

Objective: The aim of the present study was to determine the most and least important family needs in a group of family caregivers of individuals with TBI from Cali, Colombia, and to examine which of those needs were more likely to be met and unmet.

Design: Cross-sectional descriptive study.

Setting: Valle University Hospital in Cali, Colombia.