Validation of the Chinese version of the Short‐form Supportive Care Needs Survey Questionnaire (SCNS‐SF34‐C)

Au, Angel Hoe-chi; Lam, Wendy Wing Tak; Kwong, Ava; Suen, Dacita; Tsang, Janice; Park, Yeon Hee; Suen, Joyce; Ho, WM; Yau, TK; Soong, I.; Wong, Ky Y.; Sze, W.M.; Ng, Aik Seng; Girgis, Afaf; Fielding, Richard

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“…SCNS-SF 34, has been translated to the original languages of China, Germany, France, Japan, Australia, Italy and Mexico, and has been proven to be a valid and reliable assessment instrument for identifying the care needs (13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19)(20). The SCNS-SF 34 consists of 34 items aimed at identifying the needs of cancer patients and related with five areas which are psychology, healthcare system and information, physical and daily life and sexuality.…”

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

Özbayır

Geckil

Aslan

2017

Eur J Breast Health

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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 ...

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

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Aslan

2017

Eur J Breast Health

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“…Identification of the unmet supportive care needs of cancer patients and survivors informs appropriate resource allocation and optimisation of service provision relative to actual needs [1][2][3][4].…”

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“…Overall, the results demonstrate that this survey is somewhat invariant with respect to these factors. Future refinements are suggested to enhance the survey's cultural competence and general validity.Identification of the unmet supportive care needs of cancer patients and survivors informs appropriate resource allocation and optimisation of service provision relative to actual needs [1][2][3][4].To date, such assessment has focused on non-immigrant cancer patients. Immigrant groups diagnosed with cancer are worse off than comparable non-immigrant groups in terms of survival [5], psychological morbidity and quality of life [6].…”

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“…These disparities may arise from a lack of familiarity with the healthcare system, lack of culturally appropriate information, communication difficulties for culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) patients, and cultural attitudes and beliefs toward cancer [7][8][9]. Thus there is an imperative to develop and validate a questionnaire to assess unmet needs in immigrant cancer patients and survivors [2,10,11].Existing unmet needs questionnaires address themes that may be common to immigrant and nonimmigrant cancer survivors, including needs related to the health system and information, physical and daily living, patient care and support, sexuality, and survivorship [1,4,7]. However, immigrants may have unique needs as a result of the issues outlined above [7].…”

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Assessing the invariance of a culturally competent multi-lingual unmet needs survey for immigrant and Australian-born cancer patients: a Rasch analysis

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Purpose: To assess the invariance of a culturally competent multi-lingual unmet needs survey.Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among immigrants of Arabic, Chinese and Greekspeaking backgrounds, and Anglo-Australian-born controls, recruited through Cancer Registries (n = 591) and oncology clinics (n = 900). The survey included four subscales, with newly developed items addressing unmet need in culturally competent health information and patient support (CCHIPS), and items adapted from existing questionnaires addressing physical and daily living (PDL), sexuality (SEX) and survivorship (SURV) unmet need. The measure was translated into Arabic, Chinese and Greek. Rasch analysis was carried out on the four domains.Results: While many items were mistargeted to less prevalent areas of unmet need, causing substantial floor effects in person estimates, reliability indices were all acceptable. The CCHIPS domain showed differential item functioning (DIF) for cultural background and language and the PDL domain showed DIF for treatment phase and gender. The results for SEX and SURV domains were limited by floor effects and missing responses. All domains showed adequate fit to the model after DIF was resolved and a small number of items were deleted.Conclusions: The study highlights the intricacies in designing a culturally competent survey that can be applied to culturally and linguistically diverse groups across different treatment contexts. Overall, the results demonstrate that this survey is somewhat invariant with respect to these factors. Future refinements are suggested to enhance the survey's cultural competence and general validity.Identification of the unmet supportive care needs of cancer patients and survivors informs appropriate resource allocation and optimisation of service provision relative to actual needs [1][2][3][4].To date, such assessment has focused on non-immigrant cancer patients. Immigrant groups diagnosed with cancer are worse off than comparable non-immigrant groups in terms of survival [5], psychological morbidity and quality of life [6]. These disparities may arise from a lack of familiarity with the healthcare system, lack of culturally appropriate information, communication difficulties for culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) patients, and cultural attitudes and beliefs toward cancer [7][8][9]. Thus there is an imperative to develop and validate a questionnaire to assess unmet needs in immigrant cancer patients and survivors [2,10,11].Existing unmet needs questionnaires address themes that may be common to immigrant and nonimmigrant cancer survivors, including needs related to the health system and information, physical and daily living, patient care and support, sexuality, and survivorship [1,4,7]. However, immigrants may have unique needs as a result of the issues outlined above [7]. Furthermore, the interpretation of items and scores must remain invariant across diverse languages and cultural groups to enable valid comparisons.Rasch analysis provides a robust me...

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Psychometric properties of an Australian supportive care needs assessment tool for Indigenous patients with cancer

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Janda

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Cancer

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BACKGROUND: There are significant disparities in cancer outcomes between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. Identifying the unmet supportive care needs of Indigenous Australians with cancer is imperative to improve their cancer care. The purpose of the current study was to test the psychometric properties of a supportive cancer care needs assessment tool for Indigenous people (SCNAT-IP) with cancer. METHODS: The SCNAT-IP was administered to 248 Indigenous Australians diagnosed with a range of cancer types and stages, and who received treatment in 1 of 4 Queensland hospitals. All 39 items were assessed for ceiling and floor effects and were analyzed using exploratory factor analysis to determine construct validity. Identified factors were assessed for internal consistency and convergent validity to validated psychosocial tools. RESULTS: Exploratory factor analysis revealed a 4-factor structure (physical and psychological, hospital care, information and communication, and practical and cultural needs) explaining 51% of the variance. Internal consistency of the 4 subscales was good, with Cronbach alpha reliability coefficients ranging from .70 to .89. Convergent validity was supported by significant correlations between the SCNAT-IP with the National Comprehensive Cancer Network Distress Thermometer (correlation coefficient [r] 5 0.60; P<.001) and the Cancer Worry Chart (r 5 0.58; P<.001) and a moderately strong negative correlation with the Assessment of Quality of Life questionnaire (r 5 -0.56; P<.001). CONCLUSIONS: These data provide initial support for the SCNAT-IP, a measure of multiple supportive care needs domains specific to Indigenous Australian patients with cancer undergoing treatment. Cancer 2015;121:3018-26.

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Validation of the Chinese version of the Short‐form Supportive Care Needs Survey Questionnaire (SCNS‐SF34‐C)

Abstract: The Chinese version of the Supportive Care Needs Survey has suitable factor structure and psychometric properties for use in assessing psychosocial needs among Chinese women with BC. Further validation is needed for other cancer types.

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

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

Assessing the invariance of a culturally competent multi-lingual unmet needs survey for immigrant and Australian-born cancer patients: a Rasch analysis

Psychometric properties of an Australian supportive care needs assessment tool for Indigenous patients with cancer

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