PHYSICAL THERAPISTS´PERCEPTIONS OF MOTOR LEARNING QUESTIONNAIRE (PTP - ML): CROSS-CULTURAL ADAPTATION AND RELIABILITY
Motor learning; adaptation questionnaire, reliability.
Background: Assessing physiotherapists' perception of motor learning content requires a validated instrument for this purpose. Objective: To evaluate the cross-cultural adaptation and test-retest reliability of the instrument “Physical Therapists' Perceptions of Motor Learning questionnaire (PTP-ML)” for its Brazilian version.. Methods: At the beginning of the cross-cultural adaptation stage, cognitive interviews were carried out with physiotherapists (n=7) to analyse the understanding and agreement of the PTP-ML questionnaire, after this process, 32 physiotherapists completed the questionnaire in the online format for analysis of understanding and thus the expert committee once again made the necessary adaptations. For reliability analysis, physiotherapists participated in this step (n=50), who answered the questionnaire twice within a seven-day interval. Results: In the cognitive interview stage, some questions had to be adjusted to improve the professionals' understanding in the analysis of the questionnaire's interpretation. As only 11 items out of the 35 generated doubts between two participants who correspond to 6.3% of the total, no further modifications are required. PTP-ML, showed good test-retest reliability between 0.74 and 0.82 for the sections of the questionnaire. Conclusion: In this way, the questionnaire is culturally appropriate and reliable.