Sinicization of the Hospital for Special Surgery Lumbar Spine Surgery Expectations Survey and its reliability and validity test
HUANG Jiyun
WANG Shuang
XIA Fan
LI Jiuqun
Abstract：Objective:To translate the Hospital for Special Surgery Lumbar Spine Surgery Expectations Survey(HSS-LSSES)into Chinese version and test its reliability and validity.Methods:The Brislin translation model was adopted for translation,back-translate,cross-culturally adjust and pretest,the Chinese version of the Lumbar Spine Surgery Expectations Survey was formed.From July 2023 to July 2024,a convenience sampling method was used to select 328 patients undergoing elective lumbar spine surgery in the Spine department of a tertiary grade A general hospital in Guangdong province as the research subjects.The Chinese version of the Lumbar Spine Surgery Expectations Survey was used for the investigation to test its reliability and validity level.Results:The Chinese version of the Lumbar Spine Surgery Expectations Survey included 4 dimensions and 21 items,with two items being mutually exclusive,so actually 20 items were answered.Exploratory factor analysis extracted 4 common factors,with a cumulative variance contribution rate of 68.050%.The Cronbach's α coefficient of the scale was 0.917.The split-half reliability was 0.837.The item-level content validity index ranged from 0.830 to 1.000.The scale-level content validity index/universal agreement was 0.850.The scale-level content validity index/average was 0.975.Confirmatory factor analysis results showed a good model fit.Conclusions:The Chinese version of the Lumbar Spine Surgery Expectations Survey has good reliability and validity,and could be suitable for evaluating the expectation levels of patients undergoing lumbar spine surgery.
Keywords：lumbar vertebrae surgeryexpectationreliabilityvalidityscale
Publication Date：2025-12-10
Online Publishing Date：2025-12-08(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：6( 3991-3996 )