Nandakumar Devi, Veeriah Surendran, Krishnamurthy Arvind, Veluswami Sridevi, Ananthi Balasubramanian
Department of Psycho Oncology, Cancer Institute (WIA), Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Department of Surgical Oncology, Cancer Institute (WIA), Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Indian J Palliat Care. 2022 Jul-Sep;28(3):321-327. doi: 10.25259/IJPC_29_2022. Epub 2022 Jul 13.
Fear of cancer recurrence (FCR) is one of the most widely reported conditions among cancer survivors. The present study aims to translate and validate FCR7 scale into regional language tamil among breast cancer survivors (BCSv).
A cross-sectional study comprising a sample of 106 breast cancer survivors was carried out. FCR 7 scale, functional assessment of cancer therapy-B (FACT-B) and impact of event scale-R (IES-R) were used for establishing reliability and validity. Translation of the FCR7-T scale was done from English into Tamil following the international guidelines and a field study was performed.
The test-retest reliability was established for FCR 7 Tamil with a Cronbach's alpha of 0.96 and ICC value of 0.910. On Spearman's correlation, an inverse relationship was found between FCR7 and FACT-B (r = -0.259 and = 0.01). The survivors with high FCR reported poorer quality of life.
The Tamil version of the FCR7 tool is highly sensitive for measuring FCR.
癌症复发恐惧(FCR)是癌症幸存者中报告最为广泛的状况之一。本研究旨在将FCR7量表翻译成泰米尔语并在乳腺癌幸存者(BCSv)中进行验证。
开展了一项横断面研究,样本为106名乳腺癌幸存者。使用FCR 7量表、癌症治疗功能评估-B(FACT-B)和事件影响量表-R(IES-R)来确定信度和效度。FCR7-T量表按照国际指南从英语翻译成泰米尔语,并进行了实地研究。
FCR 7泰米尔语版的重测信度得以确立,克朗巴哈系数为0.96,组内相关系数(ICC)值为0.910。在斯皮尔曼相关性分析中,发现FCR7与FACT-B之间呈负相关(r = -0.259,P = 0.01)。FCR高的幸存者报告生活质量较差。
FCR7工具的泰米尔语版本在测量FCR方面高度敏感。