Open AccessSPANISH TRANSLATION OF THE MOOD RHYTHM INSTRUMENT: A NOVEL APPROACH TO MOOD EVALUATION
Author(s) -
Ana Paula Francisco,
Melissa Alves Braga de Oliveira,
Alícia Carissimi,
Raul Costa Fabris,
Carlos Augusto Vieira Ilgenfritz,
Camila Morelatto de Souza,
Madeleine S. Medeiros,
Ana Adán,
María Paz Loayza Hidalgo
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
clinical and biomedical research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2357-9730
DOI - 10.4322/2357-9730.69877
Subject(s) - mood , rhythm , translation (biology) , psychology , medicine , clinical psychology , chemistry , biochemistry , gene , messenger rna
The Mood Rhythm Instrument (MRI) is a questionnaire developed to assess the circadian rhythm of mood-related behaviors. The aim of this study was to translate this instrument from Brazilian Portuguese into Spanish. Methods: The translation process consisted of forward translation, adjustment, back translation, back translation review and harmonization. Results: Comparing the initial Spanish translation and the final Spanish version, there were no semantic differences and the items were not changed. Conclusions: The Spanish version of the MRI is ready to be tested in a Spanish population. In the future, assessing and comparing mood-related behaviors in transcultural studies will be possible. Keywords: Circadian rhythms; daily rhythms; mood; psychometric; chronobiology.
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