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Table 2 The translation procedure

From: The Support Needs Approach for Patients (SNAP): content validity and response processes from the perspective of patients and nurses in Swedish specialised palliative home care

⦁ forward translation to Swedish by two independent native Swedish persons, fluent

in English

⦁ a preliminary Swedish version of the tool compiled by two of the authors (CLH, AA)

⦁ independent review by the other three members of the Swedish research group

⦁ meaning of each original question and the meaning in the Swedish translation

extensively discussed

⦁ changes made to form an agreed version

⦁ agreed version back translated into English by one professional translator and a

native English author fluent in Swedish

⦁ the back-translated version was compared with the English original version by two

authors (CLH, AA).

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BMC Palliative Care

ISSN: 1472-684X

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