PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - CHOW, Ka-ming
AU  - SO, Winnie K.W.
AU  - CHAN, Carmen W.H.
TI  - Assessing Sexual Function amongst Hong Kong Chinese Patients with Gynecological Cancer: Translation and Validation of the Sexual Function-Vaginal Changes Questionnaire (SVQ)
AID  - 10.1007/s11805-010-0523-y
DP  - 2010 Aug 01
TA  - Clinical Oncology and Cancer Research
PG  - 230--233
VI  - 7
IP  - 4
4099  - http://www.cancerbiomed.org/content/7/4/230.short
4100  - http://www.cancerbiomed.org/content/7/4/230.full
SO  - Cancer Biol Med2010 Aug 01; 7
AB  - OBJECTIVE The study aims to translate the Sexual Function-Vaginal Changes Questionnaire (SVQ) into Chinese and to establish its psychometric properties.METHODS A Chinese SVQ was developed by the use of the Brislin model of translation. The content validity and semantic equivalence were assessed by an expert panel. The translated version of SVQ was administered to 75 Hong Kong Chinese women who were suffered from gynecological cancer to test its psychometric properties.RESULTS The Chinese version of SVQ was compared to the original study for factor analysis. Internal consistency, item-to-scale correlations and test-retest reliability were high. The convergent and divergent validities supported the Chinese SVQ to be valid.CONCLUSION We conclude that the Chinese SVQ appears to be a valid, reliable and feasible disease-specific tool for the assessment of sexual function among Chinese patients.