- Title
- Reliability and validity of a Chinese version's health-related quality of life questionnaire for Hepatitis B patients
- Creator
- Ong, Siew Chin; Lim, Seng Gee; Li, Shu Chuen
- Relation
- Value in Health Vol. 13, Issue 2, p. 324-327
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1524-4733.2009.00615.x
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2010
- Description
- Objectives: To culturally adapt a Chinese version of the Hepatitis Quality of Life Questionnaire (HQLQ) and assess its suitability for use in Chinese-speaking hepatitis B virus (HBV patients in Singapore. Study: Reliability was assessed using Cronbach's alpha coefficients and intra-class correlation coefficients. Item-to-scale correlation was assessed using Spearman's rank correlations (ρ) between scale scores and their constituent items. Convergent and divergent construct validities were tested in three and two a priori hypotheses, respectively, and the correlations were assessed using Spearman's rank correlation coefficients. Results: When tested in 134 HBV patients, the test-retest reliability was supported with all scales showing acceptable correlation coefficients (i.e., α > 0.7). Item-to-scale correlations were good with most items highly correlated with their hypothesized scales. Convergent and divergent construct validities were supported by the hypothesized correlations between the HQLQ and the EQ-5D domains. Conclusions: The culturally adapted questionnaire has good validity and reliability for use in Singapore.
- Subject
- disease specific instrument; EQ-5D; health related quality of life; outcomes research; SF-36
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/932999
- Identifier
- uon:11522
- Identifier
- ISSN:1098-3015
- Language
- eng
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