Psychometric Study of the Chinese version of the Quality of Life in neurological Disorders measures（NEUROQOL）Sleep Disturbance Scale
Date Issued
2012
Date
2012
Author(s)
Wu, Pei-Fan
Abstract
Introduction & Objects: The Chinese version of the NEUROQOL Sleep Disturbance Scale （NEUROQOL-SD-C）evaluates the self-reported sleep disturbance. NEUROQOL-SD-C contains 8 items which are rated by five-point scale. The aim of this study is to investigate the psychometric properties of NEUROQOL-SD-C for the individuals with mental illness and normal subjects.
Method: 100 psychiatric patients from community rehabilitation institutes and 100 healthy subjects from community, age 18-65, were recruited. The NEUROQOL-SD-C, the Chinese version of the Athens Insomnia Scale, the Chinese version of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, Brief Symptom Rating Scale, the World Health Organization Quality of Life－BREF（Taiwan version）, Beck Depression Inventory II, Beck Anxiety Inventory and the Chinese version of the Occupational Self Assessment were administered. Rasch Analysis and Classic Test Theory were used to examine the internal consistency, construct validity, test-retest reliability, concurrent validity, convergent validity and discriminant validity. Healthy subjects show better sleep quality than psychiatric patients significant（t= -6.469, p<0.001）, however, no different on insomnia（t=-1.267, p=0.207）and sleep disturbance（t=0.367, p=0.714）between two groups.
Result: The final NEUROQOL-SD-C contains 7 items which are rated by four-point scale. The NEUROQOL-SD-C demonstrated good internal consistency, acceptable item-total correlations, and met unidimensionality assumption set by Confirmatory Factor Analysis. All items had acceptable fit statistics in Rasch analysis. No differential item functioning was found in gender, education level and group. NEUROQOL-SD-C also showed good test-retest reliability, concurrent validity, convergent validity and discriminate validity.
Conclusion: NEUROQOL-SD-C demonstrated satisfactory reliability and validity, and can be a useful tool in clinical evaluation and clinical research.
Key Words：
Subjects
Sleep Disturbance
Quality of Life in neurological Disorders measures(NEUROQOL)
Rasch Model
Confirmatory Factor Analysis(CFA)
Psychiatric Patient
SDGs
Type
thesis
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