Validation of the Spanish Versions of FACIT-PAL and FACIT-PAL-14 in Palliative Patients

Estefanía Moldón-Ballesteros, Inés Llamas-Ramos (), Jose Ignacio Calvo-Arenillas, Olaia Cusi-Idigoras and Rocío Llamas-Ramos
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Estefanía Moldón-Ballesteros: Nursing School of Zamora, University of Salamanca, Av. de Requejo, 33, 49022 Zamora, Spain
Inés Llamas-Ramos: Nursing and Physiotherapy Faculty, University of Salamanca, Avda./Donantes de Sangre s/n, 37007 Salamanca, Spain
Jose Ignacio Calvo-Arenillas: Nursing and Physiotherapy Faculty, University of Salamanca, Avda./Donantes de Sangre s/n, 37007 Salamanca, Spain
Olaia Cusi-Idigoras: Social Psychology Department, University of País Vasco, Barrio Sarriena s/n, 48940 Lejona, Vizcaya, Spain
Rocío Llamas-Ramos: Nursing and Physiotherapy Faculty, University of Salamanca, Avda./Donantes de Sangre s/n, 37007 Salamanca, Spain

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 17, 1-10

Abstract: Palliative patients require several types of care to improve their quality of life as much as possible, and valid and reliable assessment instruments are essential. The objective of this study is the Spanish validation of the Functional Assessment Chronic Illness Therapy-Palliative Care (FACIT-PAL) and its abbreviated version, FACIT-PAL-14, in palliative care patients. FACIT-PAL and FACIT-PAL-14 were translated into Spanish and administered to 131 terminal oncology patients in home palliative care units, hospital palliative care units, health center teams, and social health centers. The European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer questionnaire, EORTC-QLQ-C15-PAL version, was used to evaluate the criterion validity. The EORTC-QLQ-C15-PAL was employed as a “gold standard”, and it obtained significant results with FACIT scales. FACIT-PAL-14, FACIT-PAL, and its subscales reported high internal consistency, from 0.640 to 0.816. The exploratory factor analysis for FACIT-PAL-14 found a structure in three factors that explained the 70.10% variance, and the FACIT-PAL scale found a structure of five factors. Physical wellbeing from FACIT-PAL highly correlated to the EORTC-QLQ-C15-PAL (r = 0.700), but social and family wellbeing was correlated to a lesser extent (r = −0.323). FACIT-PAL and the TOI (Toi Outcome Index) were also highly correlated with the EORTC-QLQ-C15-PAL, with values of r = −0.708 and r = −0.709, respectively. The Spanish versions of FACIT-PAL and FACIT-PAL-14 were demonstrated to be valid and reliable scales in palliative care patients.

Keywords: palliative care; quality of life; cancer; FACIT scales; validation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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