Heart failure & cardiomyopathies
Validity and Reliability of the Palliative Care Needs Assessment Tool in Japanese Patients with Heart Failure
Authors' conclusion
The NAT: PD-HF is a reliable and valid tool for Japanese patients with HF and their caregivers.
Study context
- Population
- Japanese patients with chronic heart failure (HF) admitted to a university hospital, Feb–Jul 2023, with their caregivers and healthcare providersplus 95 caregivers, 17 providers
- Participants
- 106 patients
- Outcome
- Validity and reliability of the Japanese NAT: PD-HF (internal consistency by Cronbach's alpha; inter-rater and test-retest reliability by Cohen's kappa; validity by questionnaire)
Methodological detailssingle-centre, consecutive enrolment, forward-backward translation, Female patients 47 (44%); median age 72 years (IQR 59-81)
- Single-centre
- Consecutive enrolment
- Forward-backward translation
- Female patients 47 (44%); median age 72 years (IQR 59-81)
Performance
As reported in the abstract
- Cronbach's alpha
- 0.82
- Minimum kappa, inter-rater reliability
- 0.77
- Minimum kappa, test-retest reliability
- 0.88
- Patients finding tool easy to understand
- 103 (97%)
- Caregivers finding tool easy to understand
- all
- Patients feeling tool would improve quality of care
- 100 (94%)
- Caregivers feeling tool would improve quality of care
- 89 (94%)
- Patients able to confide all burdens and care needs
- 102 (96%)
- Caregivers able to confide all burdens and care needs
- 91 (96%)
Further findings
Time to assess patients' and caregivers' needs
- Median time 14 min (IQR 12-17)
- 14
Original publication
Validity and Reliability of the Palliative Care Needs Assessment Tool in Japanese Patients with Heart Failure. ESC Heart Fail. Published 29 May 2024. doi:10.
Summarised from the published abstract; every number is checked against it