Adaptation and validation of the Brazilian Portuguese version of the Leader Empowering Behavior scale.

OBJECTIVES to adapt and validate the Leader Empowering Behavior scale for Brazilian Portuguese in a sample of Brazilian nurses. METHODS cross-sectional study through translation, back-translation, expert evaluation, application and analysis of content, criteria and construct of the scale. RESULTS the title of the final version was Comportamento Empoderador do Lider. The equivalence evaluation presented Content Validity Index of 89% among the 27 items of the original scale and was applied to 272 nurses. For the construct validation, psychometric analyzes were performed; through calculations of the measure of sampling adequacy, were excluded six items from the translated instrument; and in the factor analysis, four factors were retained. The Cronbach's alpha was calculated for the four domains and ranged from 0.82 to 0.87, demonstrating the scale reliability. CONCLUSIONS the adapted version presented validity and reliability criteria for use in Brazil. Its use will make it possible to know the behavior of leaders to empower their team.