Development and Psychometric Properties of the Self-Blame Attributions for Cancer Scale
| Autor: | Kadie M Harry, Mary-Joy O Marsh, Kymberley K. Bennett, Jessica Hamilton, Jacob M. Marszalek, Elizabeth J Wilson, Kalon R. Eways |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Male Predictive validity Patients Psychometrics media_common.quotation_subject education Blame Young Adult Neoplasms medicine Humans Reliability (statistics) Aged media_common Aged 80 and over business.industry Self Discriminant validity Reproducibility of Results Cancer Kansas Middle Aged medicine.disease Self Concept humanities Scale (social sciences) Guilt Female business Attribution Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Oncology Nursing Forum. 47:79-88 |
| ISSN: | 1538-0688 0190-535X |
| DOI: | 10.1188/20.onf.79-88 |
| Popis: | Objectives To adapt the Cardiac Self-Blame Attributions Scale into the Self-Blame Attributions for Cancer Scale (SBAC) for use in patients with cancer and analyze its psychometric properties. Sample & setting 113 patients receiving radiation therapy at the University of Kansas Cancer Center. Methods & variables The SBAC and other self-report measures were administered during outpatient oncology appointments for radiation therapy to establish the psychometric properties of the SBAC. Results A two-factor structure represented behavioral and characterological self-blame attributions. Reliability estimates for each factor were excellent and evidence of convergent and discriminant validity was found, indicating support for the SBAC as a valid and reliable measure of self-blame attributions in patients with cancer. Implications for nursing The SBAC may help healthcare providers, including nursing staff, to identify the self-blame patterns exhibited by patients with cancer. Future research can assess the reliability and validity of SBAC across stages of treatment and establish the predictive validity of the scale in individuals with cancer. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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