Translation and cross-cultural adaptation of the Telemedicine Satisfaction Questionnaire for use in Brazil

ABSTRACT Objective: To translate, cross-culturally adapt to Brazilian Portuguese, and evaluate the reliability of the Telemedicine Satisfaction Questionnaire (TSQ). Methods: This cross-sectional study involved patients from the Smoking Prevention and Cessation Center (PrevFumo) who participated in at least four of the eight scheduled remote meetings with the PrevFumo psychologist in 2020, 2021, or 2022. Participants were contacted by telephone and asked to answer the 14 questions of the TSQ three times at intervals of 7 or 10 days. Results: We assessed 53 patients (73.3% women). The mean age was 49.7 ± 10.2 years. The mean smoking history was 35.32 ± 24.8 pack-years. Of the 53 patients evaluated, 30.2% had completed high school or had some higher education, and 32.1% were classified as socioeconomic class B2 (A being the highest and E being the lowest). Forty-nine (92.5%) of the patients attended all eight meetings. The TSQ with only three answer options showed high reliability, with approximately 90% agreement after three applications. Patients were satisfied with telemedicine. Conclusions: The TSQ is rapidly applied, is easy to complete, and showed high reliability in our patient sample. Patients declared that they were satisfied with their telemedicine experience.

Prevalence of anti-Toxocara antibodies in a random sample of inpatients at a children's hospital in Vitoria, Espirito Santo, Brazil

Em Vitoria e grande o numero de caes soltos nas ruas, muitos dos quais infectados com Toxocara canis, sendo alto o risco de infeccao humana. Para investigar a prevalencia da infeccao com Toxocara em criancas no Espirito Santo, estudou-se a prevalencia de anticorpos anti-Toxocara em 100 soros colhidos aleatoriamente de criancas internadas no Hospital Infantil N.S. da Gloria, hospital pediatrico de referencia para o Estado. Todos os soros foram colhidos no periodo entre Outubro de 1996 e Janeiro de 1997. A media das idades foi 6,6+ ou -4,1 anos (1 a 14 aa., mediana de 6 aa.) e havia pacientes de todas as enfermarias do hospital. Sessenta e oito pacientes eram procedentes da regiao metropolitana de Vitoria e trinta e dois eram originados de 17 outros municipios do Estado. Os anticorpos anti-Toxocara foram investigados utilizando-se um teste ELISA-IgG, com antigeno de secrecao-excrecao...