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Knowledge about schizophrenia test: the Chinese Mandarin version and its sociodemographic and clinical factors

BACKGROUND: Schizophrenia is a chronic, complex, and severe mental disorder and caregivers having knowledge about it can help improve patient adherence to treatment. This study aims to translate the Knowledge About Schizophrenia Test (KAST) into a Chinese Mandarin version and test it among caregiver...

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Autores principales: Wang, Ming, Zhao, Miaomiao, Zhang, Wufang, Li, Wenxiu, He, Rui, Ding, Ruoxi, He, Ping
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10367326/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37488539
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-023-04822-9
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author Wang, Ming
Zhao, Miaomiao
Zhang, Wufang
Li, Wenxiu
He, Rui
Ding, Ruoxi
He, Ping
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Zhao, Miaomiao
Zhang, Wufang
Li, Wenxiu
He, Rui
Ding, Ruoxi
He, Ping
author_sort Wang, Ming
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description BACKGROUND: Schizophrenia is a chronic, complex, and severe mental disorder and caregivers having knowledge about it can help improve patient adherence to treatment. This study aims to translate the Knowledge About Schizophrenia Test (KAST) into a Chinese Mandarin version and test it among caregivers to validate its reliability and reproducibility, as well as to determine its associated sociodemographic factors and clinical factors. METHODS: The project surveyed 160 patients with schizophrenia and their caregivers at four community health facilities in Beijing, China, from January 2022 to February 2022. All patients and caregivers completed the sociodemographic questionnaire, and caregivers also completed the Chinese-version KAST, and 143 of these caregivers completed the Chinese-version KAST again 2–4 weeks later. RESULTS: The mean (SD) of the caregiver score was 11.49 (± 3.13). After item analysis, there was acceptable internal consistency among the 17 items in the Chinese version (KR-20 coefficient 0.702). The intraclass correlation coefficient in the retest (0.686) was statistically significant. Gender, educational attainment, marital status, relationship with the patient, and occupational status were associated with the KAST score. CONCLUSION: The findings demonstrate that the Chinese-version KAST is a reliable and reproducible instrument that can measure knowledge about schizophrenia and is valid to be applied in schizophrenia research.
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spelling pubmed-103673262023-07-26 Knowledge about schizophrenia test: the Chinese Mandarin version and its sociodemographic and clinical factors Wang, Ming Zhao, Miaomiao Zhang, Wufang Li, Wenxiu He, Rui Ding, Ruoxi He, Ping BMC Psychiatry Research BACKGROUND: Schizophrenia is a chronic, complex, and severe mental disorder and caregivers having knowledge about it can help improve patient adherence to treatment. This study aims to translate the Knowledge About Schizophrenia Test (KAST) into a Chinese Mandarin version and test it among caregivers to validate its reliability and reproducibility, as well as to determine its associated sociodemographic factors and clinical factors. METHODS: The project surveyed 160 patients with schizophrenia and their caregivers at four community health facilities in Beijing, China, from January 2022 to February 2022. All patients and caregivers completed the sociodemographic questionnaire, and caregivers also completed the Chinese-version KAST, and 143 of these caregivers completed the Chinese-version KAST again 2–4 weeks later. RESULTS: The mean (SD) of the caregiver score was 11.49 (± 3.13). After item analysis, there was acceptable internal consistency among the 17 items in the Chinese version (KR-20 coefficient 0.702). The intraclass correlation coefficient in the retest (0.686) was statistically significant. Gender, educational attainment, marital status, relationship with the patient, and occupational status were associated with the KAST score. CONCLUSION: The findings demonstrate that the Chinese-version KAST is a reliable and reproducible instrument that can measure knowledge about schizophrenia and is valid to be applied in schizophrenia research. BioMed Central 2023-07-24 /pmc/articles/PMC10367326/ /pubmed/37488539 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-023-04822-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Wang, Ming
Zhao, Miaomiao
Zhang, Wufang
Li, Wenxiu
He, Rui
Ding, Ruoxi
He, Ping
Knowledge about schizophrenia test: the Chinese Mandarin version and its sociodemographic and clinical factors
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title_fullStr Knowledge about schizophrenia test: the Chinese Mandarin version and its sociodemographic and clinical factors
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title_short Knowledge about schizophrenia test: the Chinese Mandarin version and its sociodemographic and clinical factors
title_sort knowledge about schizophrenia test: the chinese mandarin version and its sociodemographic and clinical factors
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10367326/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37488539
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-023-04822-9
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