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Validity and reliability of arabic version of the burn specific health scale-brief
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Abstract
Background:Burn Specific Health Scale-Brief (BSHS-B) questionnaire is a suitable measurement tool for the assessment of general, physical, mental, and social health aspects of the burn survivors. (BSHS-B) is the most widely used instrument and was translated into many languages. However, there is no published Arabic version yet. Purpose: This study was conducted to investigate the validity and reliability of the translated Arabic version of (BSHS-B)in assessment of Quality of Life (QOL). Subjects: 126 subjects aged from 18-55 years with mean (38.33±9.6) of both sexes.Total body surface area percent( TBSA%) of the burned patients from 11-49.5% with mean 22.28±6.9 %.Material: The English version of Burn Specific Health Scale-Brief (BSHS-B) was translated into Arabic through forward translation and backward translation. In order to test validity; regarding the content validity, ten experts were included then the Index of Content Validity (ICV) was calculated. Face validity was measured by using index of clarity (IC).The discriminative validity was applied to 30 randomly selected patients with burn and to 30 normal subjects and compared with each other. For reliability; Intra-class Correlation Coefficient (ICC) for test re-test intra rater reliability.The internal consistency was measured by Cronbach{u2019}s alpha