Validation of the Dutch Version of the Breakthrough Pain Assessment Tool in Patients With Cancer

Context: Essential for adequate management of breakthrough cancer pain is a combination of accurate (re-)assessment and a personalized treatment plan. The Breakthrough Pain Assessment Tool (BAT) has been proven to be a brief, multidimensional, reliable, and valid questionnaire for the assessment of breakthrough cancer pain. Objectives: The aim of this study was to examine the validity and reliability of the Dutch Language version of the BAT (BAT-DL) in patients with cancer. Methods: The BAT was forward-backward translated into the Dutch language. Thereafter, the psychometric properties of the... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Oldenmenger, W.H. (Wendy)
Lucas, A. (Anne)
van der Werff, G.F.H. (Gertruud F.H.)
Webber, K. (Katherine)
Visser, D. (Dick)
Velden, A.W.G. (A. W G) van der
Rijt, C.C.D. (Carin) van der
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
Schlagwörter: Breakthrough pain / cancer / pain assessment / pain measurement / psychometrics / validation studies
Sprache: Englisch
Permalink: https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-29035247
Datenquelle: BASE; Originalkatalog
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Link(s) : http://repub.eur.nl/pub/123826

Context: Essential for adequate management of breakthrough cancer pain is a combination of accurate (re-)assessment and a personalized treatment plan. The Breakthrough Pain Assessment Tool (BAT) has been proven to be a brief, multidimensional, reliable, and valid questionnaire for the assessment of breakthrough cancer pain. Objectives: The aim of this study was to examine the validity and reliability of the Dutch Language version of the BAT (BAT-DL) in patients with cancer. Methods: The BAT was forward-backward translated into the Dutch language. Thereafter, the psychometric properties of the BAT-DL were tested, that is factor structure, reliability (internal consistency and test-retest reliability), validity (content validity and construct validity), and the responsiveness to change. Results: The BAT-DL confirmed the two-factor structure in 170 patients with cancer: pain severity/impact factor and pain duration/medication efficacy factor. The Cronbach's alpha coefficient was 0.72, and the intraclass correlation for the test-retest reliability was 0.81. The BAT-DL showed to be able to differentiate between different group of patients and correlated significantly with the Brief Pain Inventory. In addition, the BAT-DL was capable to detect clinically important changes over time. Conclusion: The BAT-DL is a valid and reliable questionnaire to assess breakthrough pain in Dutch patients with cancer and is a relevant questionnaire for daily practice.