The Chinese version of Sarcopenia Geriatric Scale and its reliability and validity
CHEN Weiwei
LIU Zhenya
DU Yu
ZHANG Guifang
Abstract：Objective To translate the Sarcopenia Geriatric Scale(SARCO-GS)into Chinese and test its reliability and validity.Methods Based on Brislin's translation principles,the English version of SARCO-GS was translated and adapted into Chinese.From Novem-ber 2023 to January 2024,a convenience sample of 230 hospitalized patients from a tertiary class A hospital in He'nan Province was recruited to validate the reliability and validity of the Chinese version.Results The Chinese version of the SARCO-GS contained 7 entries,with con-tent validity indices ranged from 0.857 to 1.000,the overall consistency content validity index was 0.857.The total Cronbach's alpha coeffi-cient of scale was 0.622,the split-half reliability was 0.608,and a re-test reliability was 0.922.Following with exploratory component analy-sis,two metric factors were identified.The scale had an optimal threshold of≥3 points,an area under the ROC curve was 0.921,the sensitivity was 88.64%,and the specificity was 84.41%.Conclusion The Chinese version of the SARCO-GS screening scale has high reliability with validity and diagnostic efficiency that make it suitable for early diagnosis of sarcopenia in the elderly.
Keywords：sarcopeniascreening scalereliability and validitydiagnostic efficacynursing
Publication Date：2025-04-10
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 307-311 )