Reliability and validity of the Chinese version of self-perceived Burden Scale for cancer patients

Objective To investigate the Chinese version of Self-perceived Burden Scale(SPBS) for cancer patients.Methods Established the psychometric properties of the Chinese version of SPBS,a convenience sample of 220 patients were recruited for evaluation.Results The Chinese version of SPBS comprised 8 items.Exploratory analysis showed that the most interpretable solution consisted of 2 factors.The accumulative variance contribution which explained 61.004％ of variance of the total scale.Meanwhile,the Cronbach's α coefficient was 0.874.Conclusions It suggests that the 8-item Chinese version of the SPBS has good reliability and validity,which could be used as a tool for measuring cancer patients' burden. Key words: Neoplasms; Self-perceived burden; Reliability; Validity