Petrak A, Sherman K A, Fitness J
Centre for Emotional Health, Department of Psychology, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Eur J Cancer Care (Engl). 2015 May;24(3):355-66. doi: 10.1111/ecc.12164. Epub 2013 Dec 27.
The absence of Croatian- and Arabic-language measures to assess illness representations has contributed to lack of research among Croatian and Lebanese populations. Utilising the robust confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) approach, this study aimed to validate Croatian and Arabic versions of the Revised Illness Perception Questionnaire for Healthy People (IPQ-RH) in the breast and cervical cancer contexts, and compared these illness perceptions among Croatian and Lebanese women living in Australia. Forward and back-translated versions of the IPQ-RH were administered in Croatian to Croatian-born (n = 238), and Arabic to Lebanese-born (n = 240) women. The IPQ-RH illness perceptions were assessed for each cancer type, and the Negative Affect (NA) subscale of the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) assessed discriminant validity. The CFA method demonstrated acceptable models across the Croatian and Lebanese IPQ-RH measures. The internal reliabilities for the IPQ-RH subscales were adequate and the subscales had low correlations with the NA subscale of the PANAS, indicating that the IPQ-RH measures are largely distinguishable from negative affective dispositions. These findings demonstrate that the Croatian and Lebanese IPQ-RH breast and cervical cancer measures have a factor structure similar to the originally developed IPQ-RH scale and provide further support for the theoretically developed illness representations.
缺乏用于评估疾病认知的克罗地亚语和阿拉伯语测量工具，导致克罗地亚和黎巴嫩人群的相关研究不足。本研究采用稳健的验证性因素分析（CFA）方法，旨在验证《健康人群修订版疾病认知问卷》（IPQ-RH）的克罗地亚语和阿拉伯语版本在乳腺癌和宫颈癌背景下的有效性，并比较居住在澳大利亚的克罗地亚和黎巴嫩女性的这些疾病认知。IPQ-RH的正向和反向翻译版本分别以克罗地亚语施测于出生在克罗地亚的女性（n = 238），以阿拉伯语施测于出生在黎巴嫩的女性（n = 240）。针对每种癌症类型评估IPQ-RH的疾病认知，并使用正负性情绪量表（PANAS）的负性情绪（NA）子量表评估区分效度。CFA方法在克罗地亚语和黎巴嫩语的IPQ-RH测量中均显示出可接受的模型。IPQ-RH子量表的内部信度足够，且各子量表与PANAS的NA子量表相关性较低，这表明IPQ-RH测量在很大程度上可与负性情绪倾向区分开来。这些发现表明，克罗地亚语和黎巴嫩语的IPQ-RH乳腺癌和宫颈癌测量具有与最初开发的IPQ-RH量表相似的因素结构，并为理论上构建的疾病认知提供了进一步支持。
