The SF-36 Among Cambodian and Vietnamese Refugees: An Examination of Psychometric Properties |
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| Authors: | Devon E. Hinton Samuel J. Sinclair Rita C.-Y. Chung Mark H. Pollack |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA;(2) Southeast Asian Clinic, Arbour Counseling Services, Lowell, MA, USA;(3) Health Assessment Lab, Boston, MA, USA;(4) George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA;(5) Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, 15 Parkman Street, WACC 812, Boston, MA 02114, USA |
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| Abstract: | Among traumatized Cambodian (N=90) and Vietnamese (N=94) refugees attending a psychiatric clinic, the study examined the validity and psychometric properties of the Short Form-36 Health Survey (SF-36), a measure of self-perceived mental and physical health. In both patient samples, all eight SF-36 scales displayed excellent internal consistency (item-scale correlations and Cronbach's α). But, similar to other studies of Asian samples, (a) the Vitality (VT) scale did not separate from the Mental Health (MH) and General Health (GH) scales, as evidenced by item-scale and interscale correlations, and (b) the VT scale loaded as strongly (Vietnamese sample) or more strongly (Cambodian sample) than the MH scale on the so-called Mental Factor in a two-factor solution of the eight scales (with the GH scale also loading heavily on the same factor). |
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| Keywords: | Southeast Asians Cambodians Vietnamese Refugees SF-36 Health status Culture Stress disorder Posttraumatic |
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