An Adaptation of the Short-Form Supportive Care Needs Survey Questionnaire (SCNS-SF 34) into Turkish

Abstract

IntroductionDetermining and managing the unfulfilled supportive care needs of the patients is among the base components of healthcare (1). Supportive care may be considered as the determination of the care needs of the patients with and patient-centered approach and fulfilling those needs effectively (2). Before and during diagnosis, throughout the treatment, in the terminal period, it is the supportive care that helps the patient and the family to cope with the illness (3).Breast cancer is the most common cancer type among Turkish women. Every one out of four women diagnosed with cancer has breast cancer. The number of the women diagnosed with breast cancer in one year is 17.531 in Turkey (4). It is vital to acknowledge the complete effects of the unfulfilled needs of breast cancer patient on their quality of life to take effective and timely action. Various studies have shown that the unfulfilled care needs of cancer patients occur mostly in the early stages of cancer survival and that this has a negative effect on life quality of patients (5-7).Besides, various other studies put forward that supportive care is associated with longer survival and better life quality (7)(8)(9). In this respect, it is necessary to determine the supportive care needs of breast cancer patients and improve their quality of life. Patients have a multitude of care need dimensions; these dimensions include physical, practical-daily life activities, economic, environmental, cultural, knowledge, communication, emotional, psychosocial, psychosexual, spiritual-existential areas (10). Identifying unfulfilled needs will enable the improvement of the resources of cancer patients and the re-planning of the care (3). Recently, an interest in formal and systematical identification of care Eur J Breast Health 2017; 13: 183-8 DOI: 10.5152/tjbh.2017.3266 183 ABSTRACT Objective: In the study, Adaptation of The Short-Form Supportive Care Needs Survey Questionnaire (SCNS-SF 34) into Turkish, examination of its validity and reliability was aimed at. Materials and Methods:The study was carried out between May and July, 2016 with 170 patients. The socio-demographic and clinical status was analyzed by means of number averages and standard deviation. After language validity, the content validity index was calculated. The split-scale analyses, which are reliability internal consistency tests, were performed with the Cronbach α coefficient and total item correlation. For structure validity, exploratory factor analysis was used. Results:The average age of the patients is 55.53±11.43 years and average time since diagnosis is 5.69±5.06 years. The content validity index of the scale was calculated as 0.83. The Cronbach α coefficient is 0.93. In terms of the item total score correlation, all correlation coefficients except items 18 and 19 were between 0.36 and 0.81 and p<0.001. Items 18 and 19 were excluded. Following the exploratory factor analysis, items 13, 17 and 32 were excluded as their two detected high weight values were below 0.10. The descriptive ...

Psychometric Properties of the 34-Item Short-Form Supportive Care Need Survey (SCNS-SF34) Scale in the Malaysian Cancer Healthcare Context

“…Previous translation of the survey showed variability in terms of the factorial structure used in different settings. The study conducted in Turkey has demonstrated that the four-factor was the best model to adapt in Turkish society for the determination of the supportive care needs of breast cancer patients [17]. It was supported by a study by Au et al, where the four-factor was the best final model.…”

“…Since the 34-items short-form Supportive Care Needs Survey (SCNS-SF34) was developed, it has been translated and validated in many other languages to further confirm the psychometric properties of the translated version among a mixed group of cancer patients in different cultural settings [9,[12][13][14][15]17]. To the best of our knowledge, this was the first study to assess the factorial structure of the Malay version of the SCNS-SF34 involving Malay-speaking cancer patients with various diagnoses using the confirmatory factor analysis.…”

“…The new version has been proven to have better internal validity and reliability than the original version [8]. Since then, the short, improved version has been widely used in many countries and translated into different languages, such as in Chinese [9][10][11], Korean [12], Japanese [13], French [14], German [15], Mexican [16] and Turkish [17]. The reliability of the translated version of SCNS-SF34 varied across cultures with the Cronbach alpha values ranging from 0.64 (Chinese version) to 0.94 (Germany version).…”

Screening supportive care needs, compliance with exercise program, quality of life, and anxiety level during the COVID-19 pandemic in individuals treated with hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

“…As an alternative, the questionnaire can also be used to determine the number of perceived unmet needs (scores of 3 or more is considered an unmet need). The survey can be applied by interviews with the individuals on the phone [ 22 , 23 ]. Besides, the participants were asked whether they needed to be informed regarding COVID-19 (Yes/No).…”

Screening Supportive Care Needs, Compliance to Exercise Program, Quality of Life, and Anxiety Level During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Individuals Treated with Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation

“…Higher scores indicate higher supportive care need in that aspect. As an alternative use, the questionnaire can also be used to determine the number of the perceived unmet needs (3 or higher scoring is considered unmet need) [9]. In addition, participants were asked how much they needed to be informed regarding COVID-19 (no need -a little needed -quite needed -very much needed).…”