PO06 - Cross cultural validation of the preterm oral feeding readiness assessment scale (POFRAS).

Theme: Cross-cultural nursing.Preterm infants have to acquire neurological skills to begin breast or bottle feeding. The literature review suggested the need of a tool to assess the readiness of preterm infants for the transition from tube to oral feeding. Currently, there is not such a tool in the Italian context.To perform the cross-cultural validation of POFRAS from English to Italian.We followed international guidelines to design and conduct the process (forward translations, synthesis, pilot test to assess the comprehensibility of the contents, back translations, synthesis).The Italian version was approved by the author of POFRAS.The validation process involved several professional figures (translators, paediatric nurses, a physiotherapist, a research nurse) to obtain conceptual and semantic correspondence between the two versions.The Italian version of POFRAS is ready to undergo the statistical validation process, before it is used with the preterm infants.