Xu Jing, Li Hong, Stylianou Stella, Sze Daniel Man-Yuen, Chan Vincent Wan Shing, Yang Angela Wei Hong
School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, STEM College, RMIT University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia.
School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
BMJ Open. 2025 Sep 28;15(9):e092973. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-092973.
Cancer has impacted patients' quality of life (QoL). Qigong, a type of mind-body exercise, has been adopted by some patients with cancer to improve their QoL. However, various lengthy questionnaires were used to assess Qigong's effects which made data synthesis difficult. Therefore, a simplified Qigong QoL Questionnaire (3Q instrument) has been developed to assess cancer patients' QoL when they practise Qigong. This study aims to validate this instrument and contribute to the standardisation and simplification of the outcome measures for the studies on Qigong.
A total of 173 patients with cancer practising Qigong in Australia and China will be recruited to evaluate QoL using the 3Q instrument and Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General (FACT-G) questionnaire. SPSS Statistics V.29 software will be used for data analyses. Exploratory factor analysis will be conducted to identify the factor structures of the 3Q instrument. The internal consistency of the 3Q instrument will be evaluated by Cronbach's alpha. Test-retest reliabilities will be confirmed by intraclass correlations. Content validity will be assessed by the Spearman's correlation coefficient. Construct validity will be established through confirmatory factor analysis. Criterion validity will be assessed against FACT-G, and Spearman's correlation coefficient will be adopted to calculate their correlations.
This study has been approved by the RMIT University Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC26229). The findings from the present study will be submitted to peer-reviewed journals for publication and/or presented at conferences.
癌症影响了患者的生活质量（QoL）。气功作为一种身心锻炼方式，已被一些癌症患者采用以改善其生活质量。然而，过去使用了各种冗长的问卷来评估气功的效果，这使得数据综合变得困难。因此，开发了一种简化的气功生活质量问卷（3Q量表），用于评估癌症患者练习气功时的生活质量。本研究旨在验证该量表，并促进气功研究结果测量的标准化和简化。
将招募173名在澳大利亚和中国练习气功的癌症患者，使用3Q量表和癌症治疗功能评估通用问卷（FACT-G）来评估生活质量。将使用SPSS Statistics V.29软件进行数据分析。将进行探索性因子分析以确定3Q量表的因子结构。3Q量表的内部一致性将通过克朗巴哈系数进行评估。重测信度将通过组内相关系数来确定。内容效度将通过斯皮尔曼相关系数进行评估。结构效度将通过验证性因子分析来建立。将以FACT-G为标准评估效标效度，并采用斯皮尔曼相关系数计算它们之间的相关性。
本研究已获得皇家墨尔本理工大学人类研究伦理委员会（HREC26229）的批准。本研究的结果将提交给同行评审期刊发表和/或在会议上展示。
