Psychometric validation of the Chinese version of the PROMIS Social Relationships Short Forms.
Tingting Cai, Qingmei Huang, Fulei Wu and 2 others
PMID 34569191WHAT IT FOUND
The Chinese PROMIS Social Relationships Short Forms may serve as a brief patient report of emotional, advice and practical support for breast cancer patients.
They were tested in 965 patients.
Key findings
01The Chinese emotional, informational and instrumental support short forms met the study's reliability standard of above 0.70.
02The three support domains fit the original structure in this sample.
03Employed patients reported higher social relationship scores than unemployed patients.
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What it does not show
The sample was from only three tertiary hospitals and was mostly middle-aged female patients, so it may not represent all Chinese patients with breast cancer. The study reported questionnaire validation results, not patient outcome results. Test-retest reliability was not evaluated. The analysed sample was 965 of 1,072 eligible patients after 51 declined and 56 had missing responses. Male patients were not included.
Declared interests
The authors declared no conflict of interest. The work was funded by the Youth Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that the Chinese PROMIS Social Relationships Short Forms improve breast cancer care or patient outcomes. The study validated a questionnaire in 965 mostly middle-aged female patients at three tertiary hospitals and did not test an intervention.