Return-to-work self-efficacy questionnaire: Cross-cultural adaptation and validation in China.
Ting Wang, Mu Jin, Ruiqi Zhu and 4 others
PMID 37317045WHAT IT FOUND
A Chinese 11-item questionnaire lets breast cancer survivors report how confident they feel about returning to work.
It did not show that confidence makes return more likely; it gives a way to ask and follow it.
Key findings
01In 132 women with breast cancer, the Chinese return-to-work confidence questionnaire had high internal consistency and stable scores on retest.
02Return-to-work confidence scores were positively correlated with general self-efficacy scores (r = 0.523).
03The questionnaire's items appeared to measure one main dimension of return-to-work confidence.
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What it does not show
The sample came from two hospitals in one city, so it may not represent Chinese breast cancer patients elsewhere. All participants were women, so the questionnaire was not checked in men with breast cancer. The sample was small for a validation study (132), and the authors say it may be underpowered to detect some differences. The participants were aged 25 to 55 and had not yet returned to work, so the results may not apply to older patients or those already back at work. The paper reports retest timing inconsistently, as 3 months in one section and 3 weeks in another. The paper validated a measurement tool; it did not test whether higher return-to-work confidence leads to better return-to-work outcomes.
Declared interests
The authors declared no competing interests, and the funding statement says none.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that boosting return-to-work confidence will help breast cancer survivors return to work. This paper validated a questionnaire; it did not test an intervention or show that confidence changes return-to-work rates.