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Objective To translate the English version of Control Attitudes Scale-Revised (CAS-R) into Chinese and to test the reliability and validity of the Chinese version of CAS-R in patients with heart disease.Methods Totally 125 patients with heart disease were recruited and were investigated by the Chinese version of CAS-R.Results The internal consistency coefficient of the Chinese version of CAS-R ranged from 0.735 to 0.862.Factor analysis got three factors,which explained 54.128％ of the total variance.Using BDI as an external criterion,the correlation coefficients of the CAS-R and BDI scores were-0.59.Pearson coefficient with three dimensions of BDI were-0.48、-0.51 and 0.42.Conclusions The Chinese version of CAS-R has been proved to be reliable and valid.It can be used as a valid tool for the measurement of perceived control in patients with heart disease.