TY - JOUR
KW - Adult
KW - Female
KW - Heroin Dependence/psychology/rehabilitation
KW - Humans
KW - Longitudinal Studies
KW - Male
KW - Methadone/therapeutic use
KW - Middle Aged
KW - Narcotics/therapeutic use
KW - Opiate Substitution Treatment/psychology
KW - Principal Component Analysis
KW - Psychometrics
KW - Reproducibility of Results
KW - Surveys and Questionnaires
KW - Taiwan
AU - C. W. Chang
AU - C. W. Huang
AU - W. H. Wu
AU - B. E. Wang
AU - Y. L. Liu
AU - H. C. Shen
AU - T. S. Lee
A1 - 
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.
BT - BMC psychiatry
C5 - Opioids & Substance Use; Measures
CY - England
DO - 10.1186/1471-244X-11-39
JF - BMC psychiatry
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.
PP - England
PY - 2011
SN - 1471-244X; 1471-244X
SP - 39
T1 - Psychometric properties of the Chinese craving beliefs questionnaire for heroin abusers in methadone treatment
T2 - BMC psychiatry
TI - Psychometric properties of the Chinese craving beliefs questionnaire for heroin abusers in methadone treatment
U1 - Opioids & Substance Use; Measures
U2 - 21388523
U3 - 10.1186/1471-244X-11-39
VL - 11
VO - 1471-244X; 1471-244X
Y1 - 2011
ER -