Reliability and validity of the Benefit Finding Scale for breast cancer patients

VernacularTitle:乳腺癌患者益处发现评定量表的信效度检验
Author: Ye HU ; Juan HUANG ; Ting ZHANG ; Debin WANG ; Huiping LI
Publication Type:Journal Article
Keywords: Breast cancer; Benefit Finding Scale; Reliability; Validity
From: Chinese Journal of Practical Nursing 2014;30(33):27-29
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Objective To evaluate the Chinese version of Benefit Finding Scale (BFS) for breast cancer patients.Methods After consent of the author,according to the flow path of scales,we established the psychometric properties of the Chinese version of BUS,a convenience sample of 293 patients were recruited for evaluation.Results The Chinese version of BFS was comprised of 19 items,Cronbach's α coefficient was 0.911,test-retest reliability was 0.812,I-CVI was 0.833～1.000,S-CVI was 0.955.Meanwhile,exploratory analysis showed that the most interpretable solution consisted of 3 factors,the accumulative variance contribution which explained 55.101％ of variance of the total scale.The related validity showed that the correlative coefficient of Chinese version of BUS and Posttraumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI) was 0.745.Conclusions It suggests that the 19-item Chinese version of the BFS has good reliability and validity,which could be used as a research tool for measuring breast cancer patients' benefit finding.