期刊
JOURNAL OF THE FORMOSAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
卷 118, 期 1, 页码 215-222出版社
ELSEVIER TAIWAN
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfma.2018.03.018
关键词
Confirmatory factor analysis; Cancer; Psychometric properties; Quality of life; Rasch analysis
资金
- Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan [MOST 106-2627-M-006-015]
- MOHW [104-TDU-B-211-124-003]
- project of Health Cloud Project, Academia Sinica
Background: Quality of life (QoL) is important for clinicians to evaluate how cancer survivors judge their sense of well-being, and WHOQOL-BREF may be a good tool for clinical use. However, at least three issues remain unresolved: (1) the psychometric properties of the WHOQOL-BREF for cancer patients are insufficient; (2) the scoring method used for WHOQOL-BREF needs to be clarify; (3) whether different types of cancer patients interpret the WHOQOL-BREF similarly. Methods: We recruited 1000 outpatients with head/neck cancer, 1000 with colorectal cancer, 965 with liver cancer, 1438 with lung cancer and 1299 with gynecologic cancers in a medical center. Data analyses included Rasch models, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), and Pearson correlations. Results: The mean WHOQOL-BREF domain scores were between 13.34 and 14.77 among all participants. CFA supported construct validity; Rasch models revealed that almost all items were embedded in their expected domains and were interpreted similarly across five types of cancer patients; all correlation coefficients between Rasch scores and original domain scores were above 0.9. Conclusion: The linear relationship between Rasch scores and domain scores suggested that the current calculations for domain scores were applicable and without serious bias. Clinical practitioners may regularly collect and record the WHOQOL-BREF domain scores into electronic health records. Copyright (C) 2018, Formosan Medical Association. Published by Elsevier Taiwan LLC.
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