The Study Validity and Reliability of Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Brain Questionnaire for Turkish Society

Authors : Şenay Karadağ Arlı, Aysel Gürkan

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Publication Date : 2016-05-13

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Objective: To evaluate the validity and reliability of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Brain insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(FACT-Br); Questionnaire Turkish form. Methods: This is a methodological and descriptive study. The research was carried out on 500 patients who were treated because of primary and secondary brain tumors in Marmara University Institute of Neurological Sciences Brain Surgery Service between 18 February 2012 and 30 January 2013. The data were collected by using Patient Introduction Form, Karnofsky Performance Scale and Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Brain insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(FACT-Br); Questionnaire via face to face interview method. Questionnaire has five sub-scales and 50 items. Firstly, the validity of the questionnaire translation-back translation was made. Results: The content validity was found convenient with the received expert opinions insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(Content Validity Index- CVI=96%);. Cronbach Alpha is 0.93, Intraclass Correlation Coefficients are between 0.93 and 0.99. According to confirmatory factor analysis, fit indices were found χ 2 = 5738.52 insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(p<0.001);, df= 979, SRMR= 0.091, RMSEA= 0.099 insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(p<0.05);, CFI= 0.62, TLI= 0.93, AIC= 5942, CAIC= 6474 and ECVI= 11.91. According to KPS, questionnaire was found distinguishing insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(p<0.001);. Conclusion: FACT-Br Trinsert ignore into journalissuearticles values(Turkey); is a valid and reliable questionnaire for Turkish society. Based on these results, the patients with brain tumors quality of life should be evaluated by using FACT-BrTr questionnaire at Turkish society.
Keywords : Brain tumors, quality of life, questionnaires, reliability, validity

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