TY - JOUR
T1 - Psychometric properties of the Chinese craving beliefs questionnaire for heroin abusers in methadone treatment
AU - Chang, Chun Wei
AU - Huang, Chun Wei
AU - Wu, Wei Hsin
AU - Wang, Bo En
AU - Liu, Yi Lien
AU - Shen, Hsi Che
AU - Lee, Tony S.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by the National Bureau of Controlled Drugs, Department of Health, Taiwan (grant number: DOH97-NNB-1044). The authors thank the participants and the staffs of the methadone clinics for their contributions to the study.
PY - 2011/3/9
Y1 - 2011/3/9
N2 - Background: This paper reports the psychometric properties of the Chinese version of Craving Beliefs Questionnaire (CCBQ), an easy-to-administer assessment instrument of measurement of craving beliefs for heroin abusers.Methods: Participants were 445 heroin abusers from four methadone clinics in Northern Taiwan. Fifty-one of the participants were tested twice within a two-week period at a different hospital to examine test-retest reliability.Results: Three-factor solution using principal component analysis was identified in the CCBQ: will power, compulsive behavior, and negative coping, accounting for 54.6% of the variance. Internal consistency analysis indicated that the three factors have strong reliability, with Cronbach alphas ranging from .81 to .92. The test-retest ICC coefficient is .80. The test-retest coefficients for the subscales will power, compulsive behavior, and negative coping are .76, .51, and .64, respectively. Overall, the data show that the CCBQ has acceptable reliability and validity, demonstrating that it can be a research instrument for assessing heroin craving beliefs.Conclusions: The psychometric properties of the CCBQ seem promising for both research and clinical purposes, and the scale thus deserves further refinement and validation with heroin abusers.
AB - Background: This paper reports the psychometric properties of the Chinese version of Craving Beliefs Questionnaire (CCBQ), an easy-to-administer assessment instrument of measurement of craving beliefs for heroin abusers.Methods: Participants were 445 heroin abusers from four methadone clinics in Northern Taiwan. Fifty-one of the participants were tested twice within a two-week period at a different hospital to examine test-retest reliability.Results: Three-factor solution using principal component analysis was identified in the CCBQ: will power, compulsive behavior, and negative coping, accounting for 54.6% of the variance. Internal consistency analysis indicated that the three factors have strong reliability, with Cronbach alphas ranging from .81 to .92. The test-retest ICC coefficient is .80. The test-retest coefficients for the subscales will power, compulsive behavior, and negative coping are .76, .51, and .64, respectively. Overall, the data show that the CCBQ has acceptable reliability and validity, demonstrating that it can be a research instrument for assessing heroin craving beliefs.Conclusions: The psychometric properties of the CCBQ seem promising for both research and clinical purposes, and the scale thus deserves further refinement and validation with heroin abusers.
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U2 - 10.1186/1471-244X-11-39
DO - 10.1186/1471-244X-11-39
M3 - Article
C2 - 21388523
AN - SCOPUS:79952331865
SN - 1471-244X
VL - 11
JO - BMC Psychiatry
JF - BMC Psychiatry
M1 - 39
ER -
