title: Adaptation and Validation of a Chinese Version of Patient Health Engagement Scale for Patients with Chronic Disease.
abstract: The Patient Health Engagement Scale (PHE-s) was designed to assess the emotional and psychological attitudes of patients' engagement along their healthcare management journey. The aim of this study was to validate a culturally adapted Chinese version of the PHE-s (CPHE-s). Three hundred and seventy-seven participants were recruited from eight community health centers in a sample of patients with chronic disease in Hunan Province, China. The original Italian PHE-s was translated into Mandarin Chinese using a standardized forward-backward translation. The Rasch model was utilized and presented uni-dimensionality and good items fitness of the PHE-s. The internal consistency was 0.89 and the weighted Kappa coefficients of the items (test-retest reliability) ranged from 0.52 to 0.79. Both principal component analysis and confirmatory factor analysis supported a single-factor structure of the PHE-s. In testing the external validity, the PHE-s showed a significant moderate correlation with patient activation but not with medicine adherence behavior, which requires further exploration. The result suggested that the PHE-s is a reliable and valid instrument to assess the level of patient engagement in his or her own health management among chronic patients in China. Further analysis of reliability and validity should be assessed among other patient cohorts in China, and future directions for testing changes after patient engagement interventions should be developed by exploring some clinical relevance.
authors.affiliation: Xiang Ya Nursing School, Central South University Changsha, China.
authors.forename: Yaying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Guendalina
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Graffigna
authors.affiliation: Department of Statistical Sciences, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bonanomi
authors.affiliation: The Nethersole School of Nursing, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China.
authors.forename: Kai-Chow
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Choi
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Serena
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Barello
authors.affiliation: Xiang Ya Nursing School, Central South University Changsha, China.
authors.forename: Pan
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Mao
authors.affiliation: Xiang Ya Nursing School, Central South University Changsha, China.
authors.forename: Hui
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Feng
keywords: patient activation; patient engagement; patient engagement measure; patient health engagement scale; psychometric properties