E-ISSN : 2733-4538
This study was performed to develop the Korean version of Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General(FACT-G), which was designed to evaluate quality of life of cancer patients. Korean FACT-G was constructed on the ground of translations of FACT-G(Cella, 1997). To confirm its validity and reliability, questionnaire battery including FACT-G was administered to 349 cancer patients. Factor analysis proposed 5 factor solution, which does to match original 4 subscales of the questionnaire. Although physical, emotional and functional subscale of FACT-G seemed to be constructively valid, social/family subscale items were divided on two different factors. For social/family subscale items concerning family support were loaded to different factor from items concerning friends/neighbor support, and this was exactly same replication of previous factor analysis findings. Internal consistency for this Korean FACT-G was .86, its correlation to other questionnaire of quality of life was significantly high, and the change of QOL according to cancer stage or performance status was well reflected by this scale. On the basis of this results, implications and limitations of the instrument were discussed