Publications by authors named "Viviane Amaral Saliba"
[Cross-cultural adaptation and analysis of the psychometric properties of the Brazilian version of the Motor Activity Log].
Viviane Amaral Saliba Lívia de Castro Magalhães Christina Danielli Coelho de Morais Faria Glória Elizabeth Carneiro Laurentino Janine Gomes Cassiano
Rev Panam Salud Publica
September 2011
Objective: To describe the translation into Brazilian Portuguese and cross-cultural adaptation of the Motor Activity Log (MAL), an instrument specifically designed to assess function of the more severely affected upper limb in hemiplegics.
Methods: The MAL was translated and adapted according to standardized procedures and submitted to test-retest reliability assessment (intraclass correlation coefficient, ICC). Other psychometric properties were investigated using Rasch analysis in 77 chronic hemiplegics (41 men, mean age = 57.