Reliability of the Camberwell assessment of need (Chinese version) for patients with schizophrenia at a daycare center of Taiwan.
BACKGROUND
Despite its wide use in different cultures and languages, there has been no report about the Camberwell Assessment of Need (CAN) in Chinese patients.


METHODS
Forty-one Chinese chronic schizophrenic patients were interviewed to test the interrater reliability and test-retest reliability of the Chinese version of CAN.


RESULTS
The interrater reliability ranged from 0.82 to 0.98 when computed by intraclass correlations (ICC) for the numbers of needs and from 0.65 to 1.00 by Cohen's kappa coefficients for individual domain. The test-retest reliability was moderate to good for the numbers of needs (ICC=0.64-0.81), but varied when counted by Cohen's kappa coefficients for individual domain.


CONCLUSIONS
Although limited by the homogeneity and small sample size of the study group, this is the first trial of the CAN in Chinese culture. The satisfactory reliability and easy application make this instrument suitable for clinical use in Chinese culture.
Yeh
Hong-Shiow
HS
Division of Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Dept. of Psychiatry, Taipei-Veterans General Hospital, No. 201, Shih-Pai Rd., Sec. II, Taipei, Taiwan.
Luh
Ray-Ling
RL
Liu
Hung-Jen
HJ
Lee
Ying-Chiao
YC
Slade
Mike
M
D000328:Adult; D044466:Asian People; D003631:Day Care, Medical; D005260:Female; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012114:Residential Treatment; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013624:Taiwan / Q000453:epidemiology