The CANFOR Scale for the Assessment of Needs of Forensic Psychiatric Patients: Preliminary Report on the Polish Version of the Scale and Its Reliability.

IF 0.5 4区医学 Q4 PHARMACOLOGY & PHARMACY

Psychiatry and Clinical Psychopharmacology Pub Date : 2025-04-28 eCollection Date: 2025-06-01 DOI:10.5152/pcp.2025.23711

Mikołaj Trizna, Anna Jeleń, Paweł Dębski, Joanna Smolarczyk, Magdalena Piegza, Andrzej Kiejna, Tomasz Adamowski

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Abstract

Background: The constantly growing number of patients in psychiatric wards (including forensic wards) is a serious social, medical, and economic problem. Therefore, it is necessary to study the needs of these patients. The aim of the study was to adapt and test the reliability of the Polish version of the scale for the assessment of needs of forensic psychiatric patients-Camberwell Assessment of Need-Forensic Version (CANFOR).

Methods: The scale was translated into Polish and then back-translated. The study was conducted among 60 patients of basic and enhanced security level forensic psychiatry wards at the Provincial Specialist Mental Health Hospital in Poland.

Results: When analyzing the reproducibility of the responses in terms of assessing the reliability of the CANFOR questionnaire, perfect agreement of 100% was obtained in 22 areas of need. Similarly, in the repeatability study of the CANFOR questionnaire after 2 weeks, perfect agreement-100%-was obtained in 24 areas of need. In the correlation analysis of the CANFOR with another measurement tool-LSP, significant values at the P < .05 level were obtained when measuring several variables.

Conclusions: The study resulted in high reliability of the Polish version of the CANFOR scale. It is advisable to continue research in the area of psychometric properties of the scale, including the validity of the tool.

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法医精神病患者需求评估CANFOR量表：波兰版量表及其信度初步报告。

背景：精神科病房（包括法医病房）患者数量的不断增长是一个严重的社会、医疗和经济问题。因此，有必要对这些患者的需求进行研究。本研究的目的是调整和测试波兰版法医精神病患者需求评估量表-坎伯韦尔需求评估-法医版（CANFOR）的可靠性。方法：将量表翻译成波兰文，再反译。这项研究是在波兰省级专业精神卫生医院的基本和加强安全级别法医精神病学病房的60名患者中进行的。结果：在评价CANFOR问卷信度方面，对问卷的再现性进行分析时，在22个有需要的地区获得了100%的完全一致性。同样，CANFOR问卷在2周后的可重复性研究中，在24个需要的领域获得了100%的完美一致性。在CANFOR与另一种测量工具lsp的相关性分析中，在测量多个变量时获得了P < 0.05水平的显著值。结论：波兰语版CANFOR量表具有较高的信度。建议继续研究量表的心理测量特性，包括工具的有效性。

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