ArticlePloS one2017
Psychometric assessment of the Chinese version of the brief illness perception questionnaire in breast cancer survivors.
Article in PloS one, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 46 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
46 citing papers in PubMed, 77 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effects of a Nurse-Led, Acceptance and Commitment-Based Palliative Intervention on the Psychospiritual Well-Being of Patients With Progressive Neurological Diseases: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study.JMIR research protocols · 2026Trial
- The mediating role of illness perception between Type D personality and psychological distress in preoperative patients with gynecologic cancers: A cross-sectional study.Asia-Pacific journal of oncology nursing · 2026Article
- Factors influencing parenting concerns in Chinese breast cancer mothers with minor children: a path analysis using a multi-mediation model.Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice · 2026Article
- Patient-reported outcomes in a Pituitary Tumor Center of Excellence (PTCOE)-aligned pituitary clinic compared with general endocrinology care.Pituitary · 2026Article
- Differential influences of mpox illness representation on sexual behaviors among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men in Beijing and Hong Kong.BMC infectious diseases · 2026Article
- Sex differences in the associations between illness representations and behavioral intentions to seek early Alzheimer's detection in Chinese older adults.BMC geriatrics · 2026Article
- Determinants of adherence to sirolimus among lymphangioleiomyomatosis patients.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2026Article
- Multi-dimensional factors of behavioral intention of COVID-19 booster vaccination among people having contracted COVID-19-a 7-city study conducted during the last national major outbreak in China.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Adaptation and Validation of the Bahasa Version of the Diabetes Obstacles Questionnaire-Short Version Among Indonesians With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.The journal of nursing research : JNR · 2025Article
- The impact of physical symptoms on depression and quality of life in patients with lung cancer: the moderating effects of illness perceptions and gender.Health and quality of life outcomes · 2025Article
- Evaluation of diabetes mellitus medication-taking behavior among first- and second-generation Australians of Chinese heritage: A nationwide cross-sectional study.Exploratory research in clinical and social pharmacy · 2025Article
- The Chinese version of the stigma of loneliness scale in people with chronic diseases: an assessment of psychometric characteristics.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Illness cognition, illness perception and related factors in patients with lymphangioleiomyomatosis.Orphanet journal of rare diseases · 2025Article
- The impact of health literacy on treatment adherence in COPD patients: chain mediation roles of self-efficacy and perceived disease threat.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Factors related to stigma among patients with cervical cancer having chemotherapy after surgery in China: A cross-sectional study.Belitung nursing journal · 2025Article
- Psychological distress and its influencing factors in esophageal cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy: a longitudinal study.Frontiers in oncology · 2025Article
- Development and validation of a web-based calculator for determining the risk of psychological distress based on machine learning algorithms: A cross-sectional study of 342 lung cancer patients.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2024Article
- Mediating effect of coping strategy and psychological status between illness perception and quality of life among patients with atrial fibrillation: a cross-sectional study.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2024Article
- Article
- Fear of recurrence in postoperative lung cancer patients: Trajectories, influencing factors and impacts on quality of life.Journal of clinical nursing · 2024Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
10 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
objectiveThe eight-item Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire (B-IPQ) supposedly evaluates cognitive and emotional representations of illness. This study examined the validity and reliability of a traditional Chinese version of the B-IPQ in Hong Kong Chinese breast cancer survivors.
methods358 Chinese breast cancer survivors who had recently ended their primary treatment completed this B-IPQ Chinese version. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) tested the factor structure. The internal consistency, construct, predictive and convergent validities of the scale were assessed.
resultsCFA revealed that the original three-factor (cognitive-emotional representations and illness comprehensibility) structure of the B-IPQ poorly fitted our sample. After deleting one item measuring illness coherence, seven-item gave an optimal two-factor (cognitive-emotional representations) structure for the B-IPQ (B-IPQ-7). Cronbach's alpha for the two subscales were 0.653 and 0.821, and for the overall seven-item scale of B-IPQ was 0.783. Correlations of illness perception and physical symptom distress, anxiety, depression and known-group comparison between different treatment status suggested acceptable construct validity. The association between baseline illness perception and psychological distress at 3-month follow up supported predictive validity.
conclusionsB-IPQ-7 appears to be a moderately valid measure of illness perception in cancer population, potentially useful for assessing illness representations in Chinese women with breast cancer.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.