1. Translation and psychometric evaluation of Persian versions of Burn Specific Pain Anxiety Scale and Impact of Event Scale.
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Ghezeljeh TN, Ardebili FM, Rafii F, and Hagani H
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- Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Cross-Sectional Studies, Female, Humans, Iran, Language, Male, Middle Aged, Pain Measurement, Psychiatric Status Rating Scales, Psychometrics statistics & numerical data, Reproducibility of Results, Severity of Illness Index, Young Adult, Anxiety diagnosis, Burns psychology, Life Change Events, Pain psychology, Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic diagnosis, Surveys and Questionnaires, Translations
- Abstract
Background: Burn as a traumatic life incident manifests severe pain and psychological problems. Specific instruments are needed to evaluate burn patients' psychological issues related to the injury. The aim of this study was to translate and evaluate the reliability and validity of the Persian versions of Impact of Burn Specific Pain Anxiety scale (BSPAS) and Impact of Event Scale (IES)., Methods: In this cross-sectional study, convenience sampling method was utilized to select 55 Iranian hospitalized burn patients. Combined translation was utilized for translating scales. Alpha cronbach, item-total correlation, convergent and discriminative validity were evaluated., Results: The Cronbach's α for both BSPAS- and IES-Persian version was 0.96. Item-total correlation coefficients ranged from 0.70 to 0.90. Convergent construct validity was confirmed by indicating high correlation between the scales designed to measure the same concepts. The mean score of BSPAS- and IES-Persian version was lower for individuals with a lower TBSA burn percentage which assessed discriminative construct validity of scales., Conclusions: BSPAS- and IES-Persian version showed high internal consistency and good validity for the assessment of burn psychological outcome in hospitalized burn patients. Future studies are needed to determine repeatability, factor structure, sensitivity and specificity of the scales., (Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Ltd and ISBI. All rights reserved.)
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- 2013
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