School of Nursing and Health Studies, Hong Kong Metropolitan University, Ho Man Tin, Hong Kong.
Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong.
Biomed Res Int. 2022 Jun 29;2022:3511631. doi: 10.1155/2022/3511631. eCollection 2022.
Social support is important for stroke rehabilitation. Conventionally, social support is evaluated from the level of support received. However, the bidirectional support hypothesis postulated that self-perceived social support is optimized if individuals provide and receive social support in a balanced manner. The Brief 2-Way Social Support Scale (Brief 2-Way SSS) is a social support instrument measuring the reciprocity of receiving and giving emotional and instrumental social support.
(1) To translate and culturally adapt the English version of the Brief 2-Way SSS into Chinese (Cantonese) (Brief 2-Way SSS-C), (2) to report the results of validation of the Brief 2-Way SSS-C, and (3) to investigate the level of social support in people with stroke in Hong Kong.
The Brief 2-Way SSS-C was produced following the standard forward-backward translation model. People with stroke ( = 109) and age-matched controls ( = 53) were recruited through a university-affiliated neurorehabilitation laboratory.
The Brief 2-Way SSS-C demonstrated excellent content validity, acceptable to good internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha of 0.74-0.88), and good test-retest reliability (intraclass correlation coefficient of 0.76-0.81). There were no ceiling or floor effects, and the MDC95 across all subscales was 4. The Brief 2-Way SSS-C subscales had significant correlations with various health-related outcome measures. People with stroke had a lower level of social support than the age-matched healthy controls.
The Brief 2-Way SSS-C is a culturally relevant, reliable, and valid outcome measure for the level of social support in community-dwelling people with stroke.
社会支持对中风康复很重要。传统上，社会支持是从所获得的支持水平来评估的。然而，双向支持假说假设，如果个人以平衡的方式提供和接受社会支持，那么自我感知的社会支持将得到优化。简要双向社会支持量表（Brief 2-Way SSS）是一种衡量接受和给予情感和工具性社会支持互惠性的社会支持工具。
（1）将英文版本的简要双向社会支持量表（Brief 2-Way SSS）翻译并文化调适为中文（粤语）版本（Brief 2-Way SSS-C），（2）报告 Brief 2-Way SSS-C 的验证结果，以及（3）调查香港中风患者的社会支持水平。
采用标准的正向-反向翻译模型制作 Brief 2-Way SSS-C。通过大学附属神经康复实验室招募中风患者（n=109）和年龄匹配的对照组（n=53）。
Brief 2-Way SSS-C 具有极好的内容效度，接受度至良好的内部一致性（Cronbach's alpha 为 0.74-0.88），以及良好的重测信度（组内相关系数为 0.76-0.81）。没有天花板或地板效应，所有分量表的 MDC95 为 4。Brief 2-Way SSS-C 分量表与各种健康相关的结果测量指标具有显著相关性。中风患者的社会支持水平低于年龄匹配的健康对照组。
Brief 2-Way SSS-C 是一种与文化相关的、可靠的和有效的工具，可用于评估社区居住的中风患者的社会支持水平。
