TY - JOUR
PY - 2012//
TI - Development of quality of life scale in Chinese burn patients: Cross-cultural adaptation process of burn-specific health scale - brief
JO - Burns: journal of the International Society for Burn Injuries
A1 - Ping, Feng
A1 - Xiao-Ying, Lu
A1 - Tao, Lv
A1 - Feng, Zhu
A1 - Jian, Lu
A1 - Jie, Cao
A1 - Ling-Juan, Zhang
A1 - Juan, Huang
A1 - Jian-Ling, Hao
A1 - Zhao-Fan, Xia
SP - 1216
EP - 1223
VL - 38
IS - 8
N2 - PURPOSE: This study was designed to develop and test a Chinese burn patient-specific quality of life (QOL) scale based on the burn-specific health scale - brief (BSHS - B) to provide an effective assessment tool to measure quality of life in Chinese burn patients. METHOD: Delphi method was used after the translation, back translation and pre-commissioning tests of BSHS - B, to amend the description of the items for cultural adaptation. The adapted Chinese version (ACV) of the BSHS - B was tested for internal consistency and validity of construct on a group of 271 burn patients from three major burn units in China. RESULTS: Thirty-eight items within six domains of ACV BSHS-B were developed with scoring '0-4' in each item. The mean total score for our study group was 98.36 (standard deviation (S.D.)=37.86), ranging from 13 to 150. The total Cronbach's alpha value was 0.97 and total split-half reliability was 0.98, demonstrating that the internal consistency of the ACV was very high. Pearson correlations among the six domains of ACV BSHS - B were statistically significant. Exploratory factor analysis results showed that the six-factor function explained 78.30% of total variance; each entry in the corresponding domain had a factor-loading value higher than 0.4, indicating that the scale has a good validity. CONCLUSION: The ACV of the BSHS - B showed good reliability and validity, and can be used as a tool for assessing the QOL in Chinese burn patients. Language: en
LA - en
SN - 0305-4179
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.burns.2012.03.012
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