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Objective
The Clinical Opiate Withdrawal Scale (COWS) is a validated, clinician-administered instrument initially developed and validated for English-speaking populations. The main objective of the present study was to develop a French-Canadian translation and adaptation of the COWS (i.e., the COWS-FC) for the assessment of opioid withdrawal symptoms in clinical and research settings.
Findings/Key points
Rigorous steps based on the guidelines for the translation and cultural adaptation of assessment tools were followed, which led to a semantically equivalent version of the COWS. After a pretest among healthcare professionals, members from the expert committee agreed upon slight modifications to the French-Canadian version of the COWS to yield a final COWS-FC version (see the file below for the tool, or retrieve it from the source).
