Abstract
This article is part of my Ph D dissertation work dealing with measuring the practicality of Main Care-givers' Empowerment (MCE). The questionnaire used in this study was derived from a Japanese version containing 93 sets of questions.
The measurement conducted in China includes three steps. In the first step simplification was made to reduce the number of questions from 93 to 64 by three senior experts; In the second step, analyses of the coherency and index correlation between the theoretical components and the remaining 64 questions were carried out by 4 experts. In the analyses the average coherency rate was found to be 72.4% and the average correlation index was 85.8%. The analytical result indicated that 22 of the questions need to be further amended. In the last step, the Japanese questionnaire version was first translated into Chinese and then translated back into Japanese by two bilingual Chinese students in Japan. In this way the reliability of the translation was testified. Finally, the quantitative data, collected from the survey on 10 polled between 10 days interval, using both Chinese version and Japanese version, were tested. The correlation coefficient of the Paired Samples Test r reached 0.92, showing high levels of translation validity.
Results from the tests indicates that the Chinese version of MCE is practical and reliable.
