Psychometric Evaluation of a Thai Version of the Cardiac Distress Inventory.
Nittaya Srisuk, Naruebeth Koson, Arunsri Rattanaprom and 5 others
PMID 42557953WHAT IT FOUND
A Thai version of the Cardiac Distress Inventory looks usable for identifying emotional, role, thinking, physical, health-system and death-related distress in cardiac outpatients.
It is not proof that using it improves care.
Key findings
01The Thai Cardiac Distress Inventory retained the original eight-domain structure in 250 Thai cardiac outpatients.
02The subscales showed acceptable internal consistency, but three items had low loadings.
03The inventory's scores agreed with the Thai emotion thermometers, supporting its use as a distress measure.
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What it does not show
Participants were recruited from a cardiac rehabilitation clinic in southern Thailand using a convenience sample, so results may not apply to other regions or patient groups. The study did not test whether the Thai inventory gives stable scores over time. It did not check whether the measure works the same way across age or sex groups. Participants with low education may have found the questionnaire difficult, and long completion time may add burden. Some items had weak relationships with their subscales, and several subscales had lower item-clustering strength than the stricter benchmark.
Declared interests
The research did not receive specific funding, and the authors declared no conflicts of interest.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read this as evidence that using the Thai Cardiac Distress Inventory improves patient outcomes. The study tested whether the questionnaire is a usable measure, not whether assessment with it helps treatment.