Koh Kwee Choy, Gupta Esha Das, Poovaneswaran Sangeetha, Then Siaw Ling, Teo Michelle Jia Jui, Gan Teik Yiap, Thing Joanne Hwei Yean
Department of Medicine, International Medical University, Seremban, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia.
Indian J Palliat Care. 2017 Jan-Mar;23(1):46-52. doi: 10.4103/0973-1075.197961.
The Palliative Care Outcome Scale (POS) is an easy-to-use assessment tool to evaluate the effectiveness of palliative care. There is no published literature on the use of POS as an assessment tool in Malaysia.
To define the concordance in the assessment of quality of life between patients with advanced cancers and their palliative care nurses using a Malay version of the POS.
This study was conducted in the palliative care unit of the Hospital Tuanku Ja'afar Seremban, Malaysia, from February 2014 to June 2014.
We adapted and validated the English version of the 3-day recall POS into Malay and used it to define the concordance in the assessment of quality of life between patients and palliative care nurses. Forty patients with advanced stage cancers and forty palliative care nurses completed the Malay POS questionnaire.
The kappa statistical test was used to assess the agreement between patients and their palliative care nurses.
Slight to fair concordance was found in all items, except for one item (family anxiety) where there was no agreement.
The Malay version of the POS was well accepted and reliable as an assessment tool for evaluation of the effectiveness of palliative care in Malaysia. Slight to fair concordance was shown between the patients and their palliative care nurses, suggesting the needs for more training of the nurses.
姑息治疗结果量表（POS）是一种易于使用的评估工具，用于评估姑息治疗的效果。在马来西亚，尚无关于将POS用作评估工具的已发表文献。
使用马来语版的POS来确定晚期癌症患者与其姑息治疗护士在生活质量评估方面的一致性。
本研究于2014年2月至2014年6月在马来西亚芙蓉端姑加法医院的姑息治疗科进行。
我们将英文版的3天回忆式POS改编并验证为马来语版，并使用它来确定患者与姑息治疗护士在生活质量评估方面的一致性。40名晚期癌症患者和40名姑息治疗护士完成了马来语POS问卷。
使用kappa统计检验来评估患者与其姑息治疗护士之间的一致性。
除一项（家庭焦虑）无一致性外，所有项目均发现轻微至中等程度的一致性。
马来语版的POS作为评估马来西亚姑息治疗效果的工具，被广泛接受且可靠。患者与其姑息治疗护士之间显示出轻微至中等程度的一致性，这表明需要对护士进行更多培训。
