Validation of the Hong Kong Chinese version of the Support Person’s Unmet Needs Survey—Short Form

Doris Y. P. Leung, Yin-Ping Choy, Wai-Man Ling, Elaine Yim, Winnie K. W. So, Carmen W. H. Chan and Yim-Wah Mak
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Doris Y. P. Leung: School of Nursing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
Yin-Ping Choy: Department of Oncology, Princess Margaret Hospital, Hong Kong, China
Wai-Man Ling: Department of Clinical Oncology, Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital, Hong Kong, China
Elaine Yim: Department of Oncology, Princess Margaret Hospital, Hong Kong, China
Winnie K. W. So: Nethersole School of Nursing, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Carmen W. H. Chan: Nethersole School of Nursing, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Yim-Wah Mak: School of Nursing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

IJERPH, 2019, vol. 16, issue 21, 1-11

Abstract: This study describes the psychometric properties of a Hong Kong Chinese version of the short form of the Support Person’s Unmet Needs Survey (SPUNS-SF) for caregivers of patients with cancer. A convenience sample of 280 patient-caregiver dyads was recruited between April and June 2018. A subsample of 70 caregivers completed the survey again, two weeks later. A confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) examined the instrument’s factorial structure, ordinal alpha coefficients evaluated the internal consistency, and intra-class correlation coefficients (ICCs) assessed the test-retest reliability. Convergence validity was evaluated by the correlations with sleep disturbance and caregiver burden in caregivers. The Hong Kong Chinese version of the SPUNS-SF (SPUNS-SFHKC) had a high completion rate of 96.8% (271/280) among caregivers. The original five-factor model provided an acceptable fit with the data in the CFA. The ordinal alpha coefficients were 0.866–0.945, and the two-week test-retest reliabilities were 0.524–0.678. The correlations of the five domains of the SPUNS-SFHKC with caregiver burden were 0.257–0.446, and for sleep disturbance were 0.075–0.464. The SPUNS-SFHKC has a suitable factor structure and psychometric properties for use in assessing unmet supportive needs among Chinese caregivers of patients with cancer. The applicability of the instrument for long-term use still needs to be studied.

Keywords: Chinese; cancer; caregiver; needs; SPUNS-SF (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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