Psychometric Evaluation of a Thai Version of the Cardiac Distress Inventory.

Cardiac distress is common, yet minimal support is available for nurse assessment of patients. We translated the Cardiac Distress Inventory (CDI) into Thai (CDI-Thai) and evaluated its psychometric properties. This was a cross-sectional study of 250 adults who experienced an acute cardiac event in the past year in southern Thailand. The CDI was translated into Thai using forward-backward translation and expert review. The CDI-Thai achieved translation equivalence to the original version. An eight-factor structure was confirmed by factor analysis, with excellent fit. The CDI-Thai was shown to be culturally relevant and psychometrically robust as a measure of cardiac distress.