The aim of this study is to translate and culturally adapt into Spanish the Death Education Attitudes Scale-Teachers (DEAS-T) and the Death Education Questionnaire-Teachers (DEQ-T). These instruments assess teachers' attitudes and knowledge regarding death education in the classroom, a topic of growing importance in the educational field.
The Back-Translation method by Brislin (1970) was employed for translation and cultural adaptation. This procedure consisted of an initial translation from English into Spanish independently performed by two bilingual translators, followed by a back-translation into English by other translators with no access to the original version. This process ensured the semantic and conceptual equivalence of the questionnaires in the Puerto Rican context.
The adapted questionnaires were administered to a sample of 122 elementary school teachers actively working in public and private schools in Puerto Rico. The sample was selected through convenience sampling, including participants over the age of 18 with diverse educational backgrounds and teaching experience.
For data analysis, a psychometric study will be conducted, including factor analyses to evaluate the structure of the instruments, as well as reliability and correlational validity tests. The expected results will provide evidence of the psychometric adequacy of the scales for the Puerto Rican population, allowing their application in future research on death education in school contexts. This will contribute to the development of effective tools to prepare teachers to address death as part of children's educational experience.