Avalia？？o da equivalência semantica e consistência interna de uma vers？o em português do Internet Addiction Test (IAT)

objective: the aim of this study was to cross-culturally adapt the internet addiction test (iat) to the portuguese language. methods: the translation and evaluation process consisted of five steps: (1) translation; (2) back-translation; (3) peer review and evaluation of semantic equivalency by experts; (4) instrument evaluation through a sample of students, by evaluating their understanding level; and (5) analysis of the instrument's internal consistency (cronbach's alpha-coefficient). results: the instrument was translated and adapted to portuguese. as shown, the portuguese version of the iat was easily understood and the internal consistency value was 0.85. discussion: the translated and adapted iat displays a satisfactory internal consistency. in a further step, measurement and reproducibility analyses have to be conducted.