Abstract
(1) Background: This study aimed to assess the psychometric properties of the Malay version of SCNS-SF34 among Malaysian cancer patients. (2) Methods: This cross-sectional study involved 171 cancer patients. Data were collected using the structured five-factor survey via telephone call or face-to-face interviews. The internal reliability and the construct validity of SCNS-34M were analysed using principal component analysis with varimax rotation. (3) Results: The health system and information need (HSI) was the domain with the highest mean score (2.73 ± 0.88), followed by patient care and support needs (2.16 ± 0.90), as well as physical and daily living needs (1.99 ± 0.98). The confirmatory factor analysis indicated a moderate model fit for RMSEA with 0.070, TLI = 0.911 and CFI = 0.924. (4) Conclusions: The SCNS-SF34M was found to be a conceptually applicable and culturally appropriate scale in measuring the supportive care for cancer patients within the Malaysian context.
Highlights
Patients diagnosed with any type of cancer for less than a year, aged 18 years old and above, with the basic level of Malay language proficiency, willing and able to complete the interview and who attended the outpatient oncology clinic were eligible to participate in the study
Since the 34-items short-form Supportive Care Needs Survey (SCNS-SF34) was developed, it has been translated and validated in many other languages to further confirm the psychometric properties of the translated version among a mixed group of cancer patients in different cultural settings [9,12,13,14,15,17]
The study findings revealed that the most prevalent unmet needs for cancer patients were information regarding the status of their cancer, pleasantness of treatment condition in a hospital or clinic and things they can do to help themselves get better
Summary
Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), cancer ranks as the first or second leading cause of death before the age of 70 years in 91 out of 172 countries globally [1]. In the recent cancer statistics released in 2020, an estimated 19.3 million new cases of cancer and 10 million cases of cancer deaths were reported worldwide. The number is expected to rise to 28.4 million cases in the two decades. Half of all the cancer cases and more than half (58.3%) of cancer deaths are estimated to have occurred in Asia in
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