Cross-cultural adaptation and psychometric evaluation of the Thai version of the Enhancing Recovery in Coronary Heart Disease Social Support Inventory in individuals with chronic illnesses.
Santi Phetrnui, Jom Suwanno, Chantira Chiaranai and 5 others
PMID 39990982WHAT IT FOUND
A 6-item Thai social support questionnaire produced one consistent score in adults with chronic illness.
The living-with-family item did not fit; use the 6 items to identify support needs.
Key findings
01The adapted Thai social support scale behaved as a single overall measure in both validation samples.
02The item asking whether the person lives with spouse, children, kin, or relatives did not behave like the other support items.
03Patients reporting more social support also reported higher confidence and better self-care maintenance, monitoring, and management.
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What it does not show
Participants were recruited by convenience sampling from southern Thailand, so results may not apply to other Thai regions or countries. The study was cross-sectional, so correlations between social support and self-care cannot show that support causes better self-care. The scale was tested in adults with chronic illness, not in a specific disease group, so use in particular conditions needs further checking. No standardized interrater reliability was assessed, so how consistently clinicians score the questionnaire is unknown.
Declared interests
Walailak University funded the original study. The authors declared no competing interests. ChatGPT was used to improve language, and the authors edited and take responsibility.
The easy way to misread this
Do not use the 7-item total as a single social support score. Item 7 did not fit with the other items, and the study did not test whether acting on the score improves self-care.