Reliability and validity of the Chinese version of self-perceived Burden Scale for cancer patients

VernacularTitle:中文版自我感受负担量表在癌症患者中应用的信效度评价
Author: Qingna ZHANG ; Huiping LI ; Debin WANG
Publication Type:Journal Article
Keywords: Neoplasms; Self-perceived burden; Reliability; Validity
From: Chinese Journal of Practical Nursing 2013;(2):1-4
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Objective To investigate the Chinese version of Self-perceived Burden Scale(SPBS) for cancer patients.Methods Established the psychometric properties of the Chinese version of SPBS,a convenience sample of 220 patients were recruited for evaluation.Results The Chinese version of SPBS comprised 8 items.Exploratory analysis showed that the most interpretable solution consisted of 2 factors.The accumulative variance contribution which explained 61.004％ of variance of the total scale.Meanwhile,the Cronbach's α coefficient was 0.874.Conclusions It suggests that the 8-item Chinese version of the SPBS has good reliability and validity,which could be used as a tool for measuring cancer patients' burden.