Department of Psychosocial and Behavioural Research, Association of Dutch Burns Centres, Beverwijk, The Netherlands.
J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2013 May;74(5):1321-6. doi: 10.1097/TA.0b013e31828cca84.
The Burn Specific Health Scale Brief (BSHS-B), which is the only multidimensional measure to evaluate burn-specific aspects of health status, has previously been validated in several languages across the world. However, the stability of the underlying construct was not cross-culturally evaluated. The current study reports on measurement invariance across two samples of Swedish- and Dutch- speaking patients with burns.
In a prospective study, 231 and 275 Swedish and Dutch-Belgian patients with burns, completed the BSHS-B at 9 or 12 months, respectively, after burn. Using a multigroup confirmatory factor analysis, measurement invariance across languages (Swedish and Dutch) was tested.
The results of the confirmatory factor analysis in the total sample revealed that the scale structure for the earlier reported three-factor structure and the original nine-factor structure was adequate. However, an eight-factor structure in which hand function and simple abilities were merged provided the best fit. This structure was used to test measurement invariance across the two language groups. The two-group outcomes testing measurement invariance across Swedish- and Dutch-speaking patients indicated a stable, configural invariance.
The BSHS-B seems to function uniformly across both language groups. The BSHS-B can be used to compare cross-cultural results in both countries.
烧伤专用健康量表简表（BSHS-B）是唯一一种用于评估烧伤特定健康状况的多维测量工具，已在世界范围内的多种语言中得到验证。然而，其潜在结构的稳定性尚未在跨文化层面进行评估。本研究报告了来自瑞典语和荷兰语烧伤患者的两个样本在测量上的不变性。
在一项前瞻性研究中，231 名和 275 名瑞典语和荷兰语-比利时语烧伤患者分别在烧伤后 9 个月和 12 个月完成了 BSHS-B。使用多群组验证性因子分析，测试了语言（瑞典语和荷兰语）之间的测量不变性。
总样本的验证性因子分析结果表明，该量表结构适用于先前报道的三因素结构和原始的九因素结构，但将手功能和简单能力合并的八因素结构提供了最佳拟合。该结构用于测试两个语言群体之间的测量不变性。对跨瑞典语和荷兰语患者的两组结果进行的测量不变性测试表明存在稳定的、构形不变性。
BSHS-B 在两个语言群体中似乎具有一致的功能。BSHS-B 可用于比较两国的跨文化结果。
