Reliability and validity of Chinese version of the Hypertensive Intracerebral Hemorrhage Empowerment Scale-Short Form (C-HICHES-SF)

Abstract

Objective To evaluate the reliability and validity of Chinese version of the Hypertensive Intracerebral Hemorrhage Empowerment Scale-Short Form (C-HICHES-SF). Methods A total of 207 hypertensive intracerebral hemorrhage patients treated in the Department of Neurology inpatients of a three-grade hospital in Tianjin from August 2017 to January 2018 were selected by convenient sampling method. Chinese Diabetes Empowerment Scale-Short Form (C-DES-SF) was adapted into C-HICHES-SF by expert enquiry and the patients were surveyed. SPSS 24.0 and AMOS 24.0 were used for data processing. Results C-HICHES-SF contains 8 items. Its Cronbach α was 0.833, Sperman's half-reliability was 0.797, Guttman's half-reliability was 0.742, test-retest reliability was 0.787, content validity was 0.943. one common factor was extracted by exploratory factor analysis, and could explain 52.36% of the variance contribution.the confirmatory factor analysis revealed a good fit of the model to the date based on various fit indices (χ2/df ratio=1.172, GFI=0.997, AGFI= 0.949, NFI= 0.980, CFI=0.980, TLI=0.994, RMSEA=0.029). Conclusion C-HICHES-SF has fewer articles and easy to use. It has good reliability and validity in patients with hypertensive intracerebral hemorrhage, It can be used as an effective tool to measure empowerment ability. Key words: Hypertensive intracerebral hemorrhage; Empowerment; Reliability; Validity