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Cross-cultural adaptation of the Cardiff Fertility Knowledge Scale and the Fertility Status Awareness Tool for the French-Canadian population
OBJECTIVE: The Cardiff Fertility Knowledge Scale (CFKS) and the Fertility Status Awareness
Tool (FertiSTAT) are validated tools allowing the evaluation of fertility knowledge and raising
awareness about risk indicators for reduced fertility. Their use by health care professionals
practicing in the field of reproductive health might optimize fertility of the Canadian population.
However, there currently is no version of these questionnaires for the French-Canadian
population. The objective of this study was to translate and culturally adapt the CFKS and
FertiSTAT to the French-Canadian population.
METHODS: The translation and adaptation of the questionnaires was completed following a 4-
stage approach: 1) forward translation, 2) synthesis, 3) expert committee review, and 4) testing
of the prefinal version of the questionnaires. The testing stage was conducted with a sample of
30 women and 10 men.
RESULTS: During the translation process, linguistic difficulties were met for some items of both
questionnaires but were resolved by consensus of the expert committee. Thirty women and 10
men tested the prefinal version of the CFKS-F and FertiSTAT-F. On a 5-point Likert scale, the
global comprehension was 4.8±0.5 and 4.6±0.6, respectively. Based on the comments of the
participants, the expert committee made minor modifications in the final version of the
questionnaires to clarify the formulation of questions and adapt to one medical term. CONCLUSION: Tools to assess fertility knowledge and the presence of risk indicators for reduced
fertility are now available for health care professionals practicing in the field of reproductive
health