. Mansoureh A. Farahani; . Shabnam Shariatpanahi; . Fereshteh J. Tehrani; . Mahsa Boozaripour
Volume 13, Issue 1 , January 2023, , Pages 1-10
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Patients with heart failure experience severe and chronic physical and psychologicalmanifestations while the disease progresses. Assessing the degree of distress caused ...
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BACKGROUND: Patients with heart failure experience severe and chronic physical and psychologicalmanifestations while the disease progresses. Assessing the degree of distress caused bymanifestations of the disease in patients is the first step in designing and evaluating interventionprograms to improve patients’ symptoms. The aim of this study was to investigate the psychometricproperties of the Persian version of the Symptom Distress Scale in HF patients.MATERIALS AND METHODS: This study was conducted via methodological research design fromMarch to November 2019. The translation process and cross‑cultural adaptation were performedusing a process recommended by the World Health Organization. The face and content validity andinternal consistency were used to evaluate the validity and reliability of the instrument. The scalewas evaluated by exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis in 300 patients with heart failure, andthe obtained data were analyzed using SPSS‑22 and AMOS‑22 software.RESULTS: The content validity of the scale was approved based on the results of the study. One‑factorscale with 13 items was used in the confirmatory factor analysis, and the results showed that theinstrument had high goodness‑of‑fit indices. Spearman correlation test for convergent validity showeda correlation between the score obtained by the Scale of Symptoms of Disease and the scores ofThe European Heart Failure Self‑care Behavior scale (9 items) (P < 0.0001).CONCLUSION: The Persian version of the Symptom Distress Scale can be used as a valid instrumentfor people with heart failure due to its desirable psychometric properties.
