Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the Danish consensus version of the 10-item Perceived Stress Scale.

OBJECTIVES The aims of the present study were to (i) cross-culturally adapt a Danish consensus version of the 10-item Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10) and (ii) evaluate its psychometric properties in terms of agreement, reliability, validity, responsiveness, and interpretability among patients with work-related stress complaints. METHODS A consensus-building process was performed involving the authors of the three previous Danish translations and the consensus version was back-translated into English and pilot-tested. Psychometric properties of the final version were examined in a sample of 64 patients with work-related stress complaints. RESULTS The face validity, reliability, and internal consistency of the Danish consensus version of the PSS-10 were satisfactory, and convergent construct validity was confirmed. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves of the change scores showed that the ability of the PSS-10 to correctly classify patients as improved or unchanged according to the patients' own judgment was acceptable. The estimates of minimal clinically important change were 11 points and 28% for absolute and relative change scores, respectively. CONCLUSION The Danish consensus version of the PSS-10 appears to be feasible for use in clinical research settings and has good psychometric properties in terms of agreement, reliability, validity, responsiveness, and interpretability.

• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health

• Publication date

  2015-09-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.5271/sjweh.3510PMID 26111225
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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