Translation of the Patient Scar Assessment Scale (PSAS) to French with cross-cultural adaptation, reliability evaluation and validation.

摘要: Background Patient esthetic satisfaction related to scarring after orthopedic surgery was rarely assessed before the development of Scar Assessment Scale (PSAS). The purpose our study translate and validate PSAS assess psychometric properties French version. Methods We conducted a staged validation with forward backward translation concurrent validation. committee comrpised bilingual experts. patient sample comprised 53 patients who were at minimum 1 year postoperatively. followed standardized process for cross-cultural adaptation develop First, 2 independent translators completed then met achieve consensus This consolidated version translated into English cross-verified original A group plastic surgeons this content validity. test-retest reliability new scale, which filled out twice by cohort patients, using scale distribution analysis, internal consistency (Chronbach alpha) absolute agreement (intraclass correlation coefficients [ICC (2,1)]). Results level on between initially later among expert panel high. (PSAS-Fr) its high (Chronback alpha 0.87-0.98 each 6 questions), excellent (ICC 0.96). On other hand, there no bias occasions (retests difference -0.24) scores fell within standard deviations 5. Older had higher about scar appearance. Conclusion PSAS-Fr successfully from demonstrated strong cross-sectional properties. Further assessment in longitudinal studies is warranted.