The Psychosocial Assessment of Transplant Candidates: Internal Consistency, Interrater Reliability, and Content Validity of the Thai Version of the Stanford Integrated Psychosocial Assessment for Transplantation (SIPAT-Thai Version). Transplantation proceedings Thisayakorn, P., Sakunwetsa, D., Tangwongchai, S., Jirakran, K., Lolak, S., Maldonado, J. R. 2021

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Standardized pretransplant psychosocial assessment is critically needed in Thailand to optimize medical and psychosocial outcomes after transplantation. The Stanford Integrated Psychosocial Assessment for Transplantation (SIPAT) is a comprehensive and evidence-based tool that has demonstrated excellent reliability and predictive value in many psychosocial transplant studies. We translated the SIPAT into Thai and explored the validity and reliability of the SIPAT-Thai version among Thai transplant recipients.METHODS: We translated the original SIPAT into Thai following the World Health Organization's standard forward-backward translation procedure and then cross-sectionally assessed its validity and reliability in 110 Thai solid organ transplant candidates. The correlation between background data, total, and sectional scoring results of SIPAT-Thai were also analyzed.RESULTS: The SIPAT-Thai demonstrated moderate to good reliability, which was represented by internal consistency with a Cronbach alpha of .751 and interrater reliability with a kappa value at 0.767. The index of item-objective congruence value was 0.94, indicating good the content validity.CONCLUSIONS: The SIPAT-Thai was systematically translated and shown to have acceptable validity and a moderate to good reliability index. The use of the SIPAT-Thai would provide a standardized, evidence-based, and a more systematic pretransplant psychosocial evaluation process for transplant candidates in Thailand.

View details for DOI 10.1016/j.transproceed.2021.02.013

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