translation, face and content validity of burden scale for family caregivers

Background: informal caregiverswhogive regular care to their relative, needing help for a time, are at risk of manydifficulties such as financial dependency, anger, wandering, social problems and communication problems. the purpose of our study is to translate and validate a persian version of “burden scale for family caregivers-short (bsfc-s)” to measure the burden of informal caregivers. methods: the bsfc-s was translated into farsi by the world health organization (who) method. content validity was evaluated by 15 experts in the field of occupational therapy and physical therapy using lawshe’s method. a total of 11 caregivers of stroke families’ patients scored each item for face validity. results: the results indicated that bsfc-s has good face validity. the impact factor was between 2.94 and 4.14. no item had a content validity index (cvi) below 0.79 and based on the lawshe’s method, the items’ content validity ratio (cvr) was above 0.49. conclusions: the bsfc-s was translated into persian and its face as well as content validity were acceptable. nevertheless, further studies are needed to evaluate its reliability and validity.