PMID- 17957732
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20081017
LR  - 20151119
IS  - 1099-1611 (Electronic)
IS  - 1057-9249 (Linking)
VI  - 17
IP  - 6
DP  - 2008 Jun
TI  - Standardization of the Korean version of Mini-Mental Adjustment to Cancer 
      (K-Mini-MAC) scale: factor structure, reliability and validity.
PG  - 592-7
AB  - Mental adjustment and coping affect the physical outcome and survival as well as 
      quality of life in cancer patients. The Mini-Mental Adjustment to Cancer 
      (Mini-MAC) scale is a new refined, economical and reliable self-rating instrument 
      measuring cognitive and behavioral responses to cancer. The aim of this study was 
      to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Mini-MAC in Korean cancer 
      patients. A total of 208 cancer patients recruited from the Yonsei Cancer Center 
      were assessed with the Mini-MAC and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale 
      (HADS). Principal component analysis with varimax rotation for the Korean version 
      of Mini-MAC (K-Mini-MAC) confirmed four factors. Three had psychometric 
      properties similar to Helpless-Hopeless (HH), Anxious Preoccupation (AP) and 
      Cognitive Avoidance (CA) of the original Mini-MAC. A novel factor, named Positive 
      Attitude, included items of both Fatalism (FA) and Fighting Spirit (FS) from the 
      original version. The five subscales from the original version (AP, HH, FS, FA 
      and CA) and Positive Attitude had acceptable internal reliabilities in our sample 
      (Cronbach's alpha coefficient 0.50-0.86; correlation coefficient of test-retest 
      0.68-0.88). For the validity, significant interscale correlation was observed in 
      the original five subscales and Positive Attitude. Each subscale including 
      Positive Attitude was also significantly related to Depression and Anxiety of 
      HADS. As a whole, the K-Mini-MAC was a reliable, valid and acceptable tool for 
      Korean cancer patients. These findings can provide information about the 
      cross-cultural validity of Mini-MAC scale's factor structure. Cultural 
      differences were also discussed.
FAU - Kang, Jee In
AU  - Kang JI
AD  - Institute of Behavioral Science in Medicine and Department of Psychiatry, Yonsei 
      University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
FAU - Chung, Hyun Cheol
AU  - Chung HC
FAU - Kim, Se Joo
AU  - Kim SJ
FAU - Choi, Hye Jin
AU  - Choi HJ
FAU - Ahn, Joong Bae
AU  - Ahn JB
FAU - Jeung, Hei-Cheul
AU  - Jeung HC
FAU - Namkoong, Kee
AU  - Namkoong K
LA  - eng
PT  - Comparative Study
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - England
TA  - Psychooncology
JT  - Psycho-oncology
JID - 9214524
SB  - IM
MH  - Activities of Daily Living/psychology
MH  - *Adaptation, Psychological
MH  - Adult
MH  - Aged
MH  - Anxiety/diagnosis/psychology
MH  - Avoidance Learning
MH  - Breast Neoplasms/psychology
MH  - Colorectal Neoplasms/psychology
MH  - *Cross-Cultural Comparison
MH  - Culture
MH  - Defense Mechanisms
MH  - Female
MH  - Helplessness, Learned
MH  - Humans
MH  - Korea
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Neoplasms/*psychology
MH  - Personality Inventory/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - Psychometrics/statistics & numerical data
MH  - Reproducibility of Results
MH  - *Sick Role
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
MH  - Translating
EDAT- 2007/10/25 09:00
MHDA- 2008/10/18 09:00
CRDT- 2007/10/25 09:00
PHST- 2007/10/25 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2008/10/18 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2007/10/25 09:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1002/pon.1277 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Psychooncology. 2008 Jun;17(6):592-7. doi: 10.1002/pon.1277.