Development and Testing of a Reliable and Valid Patient-Needs Questionnaire for Breast Cancer Inpatients in China
Introduction: Breast cancer patients are demanding more active roles in their care, especially in the initial diagnosis and treatment stages. At present, there is no suitable patient questionnaire that appropriately incorporates Chinese language, habits, and cultural differences. Aim: To develo...
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| description | Introduction: Breast cancer patients are demanding more active
roles in their care, especially in the initial diagnosis and treatment
stages. At present, there is no suitable patient questionnaire
that appropriately incorporates Chinese language, habits, and
cultural differences.
Aim: To develop and validate a patient-needs questionnaire for
female breast cancer inpatients in China.
Materials and Methods: The questionnaire structure was
based on Maslow's model and a modern medical model. In the
first step, a focus group was used to design 125 questions, of
which 64 constituted the initial questionnaire for item screening
with a group of 115 hospitalized patients with breast cancer.
Items were included or excluded based on the evaluation of
eight statistical analysis. Ultimately, 38 items were selected and
validated. The reliability and validity of the 38-item questionnaire
were determined in a cohort of 323 patients.
Results: The scale was set up with the 38 selected items.
The four primary areas were disease knowledge, medical
environment, psychosocial parameters and sexual attitudes.
Cronbach’s coefficient was 0.959. The split-half reliability value
was 0.935. Principal component factor analysis extracted four
common factors.
Conclusion: Our new questionnaire, designed to assess the
care needs of Chinese inpatients with breast cancer is reliable,
sensitive, effective, independent and representative. It can
be used in medical practice as a tool for a more complete
assessment of patients’ needs. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-24cfb089ea76412896c43bf695b470cc2022-12-22T00:53:25ZengJCDR Research and Publications Private LimitedJournal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research2249-782X0973-709X2016-10-011010XC06XC1010.7860/JCDR/2016/17907.8668Development and Testing of a Reliable and Valid Patient-Needs Questionnaire for Breast Cancer Inpatients in ChinaLing Li0Jing Xue1Zhan-Zhan Li2Li-Zhang Chen3Associate Senior Technician, Records Office, Guangzhou First People’s Hospital, Guangzhou Medical College, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.Attending Doctor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Central South University, 78 Xiangya Road, Changsha, Hunan, China.Attending Doctor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Central South University, 78 Xiangya Road, Changsha, Hunan, China.Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Central South University, 78 Xiangya Road, Changsha, Hunan, China.Introduction: Breast cancer patients are demanding more active roles in their care, especially in the initial diagnosis and treatment stages. At present, there is no suitable patient questionnaire that appropriately incorporates Chinese language, habits, and cultural differences. Aim: To develop and validate a patient-needs questionnaire for female breast cancer inpatients in China. Materials and Methods: The questionnaire structure was based on Maslow's model and a modern medical model. In the first step, a focus group was used to design 125 questions, of which 64 constituted the initial questionnaire for item screening with a group of 115 hospitalized patients with breast cancer. Items were included or excluded based on the evaluation of eight statistical analysis. Ultimately, 38 items were selected and validated. The reliability and validity of the 38-item questionnaire were determined in a cohort of 323 patients. Results: The scale was set up with the 38 selected items. The four primary areas were disease knowledge, medical environment, psychosocial parameters and sexual attitudes. Cronbach’s coefficient was 0.959. The split-half reliability value was 0.935. Principal component factor analysis extracted four common factors. Conclusion: Our new questionnaire, designed to assess the care needs of Chinese inpatients with breast cancer is reliable, sensitive, effective, independent and representative. It can be used in medical practice as a tool for a more complete assessment of patients’ needs.https://jcdr.net/articles/PDF/8668/17907_CE[Ra1]_F(GH)_PF1(AHAK)_PFA(AK)_PF2(PAG).pdfbio-psychosocial modelchinese questionnairedemandhealth educationinstrumentreliabilityvalidity |
| spellingShingle | Ling Li Jing Xue Zhan-Zhan Li Li-Zhang Chen Development and Testing of a Reliable and Valid Patient-Needs Questionnaire for Breast Cancer Inpatients in China Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research bio-psychosocial model chinese questionnaire demand health education instrument reliability validity |
| title | Development and Testing of a Reliable and Valid Patient-Needs Questionnaire for Breast Cancer Inpatients in China |
| title_full | Development and Testing of a Reliable and Valid Patient-Needs Questionnaire for Breast Cancer Inpatients in China |
| title_fullStr | Development and Testing of a Reliable and Valid Patient-Needs Questionnaire for Breast Cancer Inpatients in China |
| title_full_unstemmed | Development and Testing of a Reliable and Valid Patient-Needs Questionnaire for Breast Cancer Inpatients in China |
| title_short | Development and Testing of a Reliable and Valid Patient-Needs Questionnaire for Breast Cancer Inpatients in China |
| title_sort | development and testing of a reliable and valid patient needs questionnaire for breast cancer inpatients in china |
| topic | bio-psychosocial model chinese questionnaire demand health education instrument reliability validity |
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