Psychometric evaluation of the Chinese version of the supportive care needs survey for caregivers of children with Paediatric cancer (SCNS-C-Ped-C).
Jingting Wang, Xuanyi Bi, Shuyi Zhang and 5 others
PMID 36894867WHAT IT FOUND
The Chinese Supportive Care Needs Survey for caregivers of children with paediatric cancer reliably measures six domains: healthcare information, daily care communication, psychological spiritual, medical service, economic, and emotional needs.
It takes 5 to 10 minutes to complete.
Key findings
01The revised scale identifies six distinct domains of supportive care needs, including specific medical service and economic needs, differing from the four domains in the original English version.
02The scale demonstrates high internal consistency with a total Cronbach's alpha of 0.968 and split-half reliability of 0.883.
03Caregivers found all items comprehensible during pilot testing, and the survey takes approximately 5 to 10 minutes to complete.
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What it does not show
The sample was recruited from only three tertiary hospitals in China, limiting generalizability to other regions or community settings. Convenience sampling was used, which may introduce selection bias. Participants were predominantly educated caregivers, potentially excluding those with lower literacy. The study did not evaluate test-retest reliability, so the stability of scores over time is unknown. The sample was heavily skewed toward leukaemia (83.3%), so the scale's performance for other paediatric cancers is less certain.
Declared interests
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
The easy way to misread this
Do not assume this scale is valid for caregivers of children with cancers other than leukaemia or for populations outside China without further validation, as the sample was highly specific to tertiary hospitals and leukaemia cases.