Li, Xiang;
Niu, Zefan;
Gao, Chen;
Kroeger, Annika;
Tsakos, Georgios;
Li, Bolong;
Zhu, Jiaqi;
... Dietrich, Thomas; + view all
(2025)
The cross-cultural adaptation and psychometric evaluation of a Chinese version of the postoperative symptom severity (PoSSe) scale.
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Abstract
Background: The postoperative symptom severity (PoSSe) scale, which was developed in the UK, measures the impact of postoperative morbidity on patients’ quality of life after lower third molar surgery. It has recently been used in Chinese populations but without having been adapted and validated for these populations. The aim of this study was to cross-culturally adapt and psychometrically evaluate a Chinese version (Simplified Chinese) of the PoSSe scale for applications in third molar surgery in Chinese patient populations. Methods: We employed a rigorous multi-step cross-cultural adaptation process, including forward and backward translation followed by pilot testing, where participants documented the relevance and ease of understanding of the PoSSe items. The psychometric evaluation of the final Chinese version took place in a sample of 101 patients undergoing lower third molar surgery in Tianjin, China. Cronbach’s Alpha (α) coefficient was calculated for the reliability evaluation, while the Spearman correlation coefficient (r<inf>s</inf>) and Pearson’s correlation coefficient (r) were used for validity assessment. Results: The PoSSe scale demonstrated excellent internal consistency (Cronbach’s α = 0.80 for the whole sample; α = 0.80 among patients with bone removal during surgery; α = 0.81 among patients without bone removal during surgery). For validity assessment, PoSSe scores had statistically significant associations with the extent of surgical trauma (osteotomy and duration of surgery), self-reported pain and clinically assessed trismus. The strength of these associations varied between the two groups (with and without bone removal during surgery) in the expected direction. The results suggest that the Chinese version of the PoSSe scale has acceptable linguistic clarity, cultural relevance, and context appropriateness, showing excellent internal consistency and validity and can be confidently used for clinical and research applications in Chinese patient populations. Conclusions: The PoSSe scale has been successfully cross-culturally adapted for postoperative use among Chinese patients undergoing third molar surgery and demonstrated successful psychometric assessment for its reliability and validity, which allows future informative studies in China, also in terms of comparison across countries involving China that could assess the cultural equivalence of the measure.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | The cross-cultural adaptation and psychometric evaluation of a Chinese version of the postoperative symptom severity (PoSSe) scale |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41405-025-00333-9 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41405-025-00333-9 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
| Keywords: | Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Dentistry, Oral Surgery & Medicine |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health > Epidemiology and Public Health |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10214144 |
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