1Post Graduate Student, Allied health Sciences, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi
2Asst. Professor, Department of Physiotherapy, Integral University, Lucknow
3Senior Consultant DNB, at LRS institute of T.B.& Respiratory Diseases, Delhi
4Asst. Professor, Department of Physiotherapy, Integral University, Lucknow
5Assistant Professor, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi
6Ashfaque Khan, Asso. Professor, Head of, Department of Physiotherapy, Integral University, Lucknow
7Asst. Professor, Department of Physiotherapy, Integral University, Lucknow
*Corresponding author: Imran Khan Post graduate Student, Allied Health Sciences, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, E-mail-khanimran2343@gmail.com
Online published on 14 October, 2016.
COPD is one of the major causes of health care burden worldwide. The clinical manifestations of COPD have negative influence on the self efficacy of COPD patients. Objective measurement of the impact of underlying condition on the self efficacy is of great importance in pulmonary rehabilitation. This can be achieved by the COPD Self Efficacy Scale (CSES). In present study our objective was to translate and validate a language relevant tool i.e. the Hindi version of the CSES for evaluating the self-efficacy of Hindi speaking COPD patients in India.
Forward translation of the CSES to Hindi was done & the backward translation of the same was done back to English. New Hindi version of the CSES was then subjected to a field test where it was administered to 50 COPD patients with mean age of 56.12 ± 8.7 years, of which 37 were male &13 female. The Hindi version of St. George's Respiratory questionnaire, FEV1 and FEV1/FVC values were used to validate the translated version of the COPD Self Efficacy scale.
Strong correlation existed between the total scores of the CSES (Hindi) & 5 factors of the CSES. Weak to moderate correlation existed between the CSES & St. George's Respiratory Questionnaire, FEV1, FEV1/FVC & age. No difficulty was experienced in understanding the translated version of CSES.
The Hindi version of CSES has demonstrated acceptable levels of feasibility, internal consistency, face & construct validity & is conceptually equivalent to the original.
COPD, Linguistic Validation, Hindi
