Translation of the Children′s International Mucositis Evaluation Scale and its psychometric evaluation in pediatric patients with acute leukemia / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective@#To translate the Children′s International Mucositis Evaluation Scale (ChIMES) into Chinese and evaluate its psychometric charateristics in pediatric patients with acute leukemia.@*Methods@#After translation and cognitive debriefing interviews, convenience sampling was used to recruit 105 pediatric patients with acute leukemia in a Shanghai AAA pediatric hospital.@*Results@#The known-group validity was great, and criterion validity was 0.947. Through EFA, the Chinese version of ChIMES included two dimensions which accounted for 75.270% of the accumulated variance, and each item had high factor loading quantity (>0.5). Cronbach alpha was 0.826 and the split-half reliability was 0.590. Relevance between each item and total score was good, with Pearson correlation coefficient 0.424-0.900.@*Conclusion@#The Chinese version of ChIMES has been proved valid and reliable and can be practically and feasibly used in the future.