Validity and Reliability of The Turkish Version of Fear of Cancer Recurrence Inventory

Abstract

OBJECTIVEThe aim of this study is to conduct the Turkish adaptation and to test the validity and reliability of theTurkish version of the “Fear of Cancer Recurrence Inventory (FCRI).”METHODSA total of 219 mixed-type cancer survivors with a mean age of 50.76 years participated in the study(79.9% women). They were asked to complete the Impact of Events Scale (IES) and Patient Health Questionnaire-Somatic, Anxiety, and Depressive Symptoms (PHQ-SADS) along with the translated versionof FCRI.RESULTSBy exploratory factor analysis and oblique rotation, the number of factors of the original scale decreasedfrom 7 to 5 and three of them have been renamed (“recurrence-related meta-cognitions,” “emotion-focused coping strategies,” and “quality of life”). The overall Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of FCRI was 0.94,and the item-total correlations ranged between 0.37 and 0.75. With respect to concurrent validity, exceptfor the “avoidance” subscale of IES, significant correlations (r=0.13–0.70; all p