Persian Translation of Perception of Psychiatry Survey Questionnaire and Evaluation of its Psychometric Properties

Objective: test the psychometric properties of the persian version of theperception of psychiatry survey questionnaire , which is being used in alarge multi-site international study, of which we were part. this instrumentwas designed to measure the attitudes of medical educators topsychiatry.methods: we used world health organization guideline as themethodological model for persian translation. the persian version ofperception of psychiatry survey questionnaire was administered to aconvenience sample of 100 medical teachers at tehran university ofmedical sciences and azad university. the content validity, internalconsistency, and test-retest reliability of the instrument were assessed.results: no item changed completely during the process of translationand cultural adaptation. the content validity of translation and backtranslation was 0.74 and 0.86 according to feliss kappa statistic. thecronbach’s ? coefficient was 0.76 for the persian version and for itssubdivisions ranged from 0.59 to 0.81. the inter class correlation (icc)coefficient for test-retest reliability of the whole instrument was 0.89.conclusion: the persian version of perception of psychiatry surveyquestionnaire could be considered as a good cross-cultural equivalent fororiginal english version. the instrument is a reliable instrument in terms ofinternal consistency and test-retest reliability.