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01-02-2014 | Brief Communication

The Functional Living Index-Cancer is a reliable and valid instrument in Chinese cancer patients

Auteurs: Daniel Y. T. Fong, Alvina H. K. Lee, Stewart Y. Tung, Janet Y. H. Wong, Y. M. Chan, Cynthia R. Goh, Y. B. Cheung

Gepubliceerd in: Quality of Life Research | Uitgave 1/2014

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Abstract

Purpose

To evaluate the linguistic and psychometric properties of the Functional Living Index-Cancer (FLIC) in assessing the quality of life of Chinese cancer patients.

Methods

The English FLIC was translated into Traditional Chinese by the standard forward–backward procedure. After cognitive debriefing, a Traditional Chinese FLIC was administered to 500 cancer patients in a major public hospital in Hong Kong. Of which, 200 were invited to complete the questionnaire in 2 weeks. To identify a scale structure appropriate to Chinese, exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were performed on two randomly split halves of the sample.

Results

We identified five scales of the Traditional Chinese FLIC which assess the physical, psychological, hardship, nausea and social aspects. These five scales and the overall scale demonstrated satisfactory fit and had the alpha coefficient ranged from 0.68 to 0.92. The intra-class correlation coefficient ranged from 0.67 to 0.88. In addition, all FLIC scales were negatively associated with the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status and, also except for the psychological scale, had lower scores in patients who were treated by chemotherapy.

Conclusions

The Traditional Chinese FLIC is an appropriate health indicator for Chinese cancer patients.
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Metagegevens
Titel
The Functional Living Index-Cancer is a reliable and valid instrument in Chinese cancer patients
Auteurs
Daniel Y. T. Fong
Alvina H. K. Lee
Stewart Y. Tung
Janet Y. H. Wong
Y. M. Chan
Cynthia R. Goh
Y. B. Cheung
Publicatiedatum
01-02-2014
Uitgeverij
Springer International Publishing
Gepubliceerd in
Quality of Life Research / Uitgave 1/2014
Print ISSN: 0962-9343
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-2649
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-013-0456-z

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