| Autor: |
Tulman, Lorraine, Fawcett, Jacqueline, McEvoy, Mary Dee |
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Cancer Nursing; October 1991, Vol. 14 Issue: 5 p254-260, 7p |
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The purpose of this article is to report the development and psychometric testing of the Inventory of Functional StatusCancer IFSCA. The IFSCA was developed to measure functional status in women with cancer. The questionnaire includes four subscales measuring the extent to which the woman continues her usual household and family, social and community, personal care, and occupational activities. Content validity was established at 98.5. Internal consistency reliability testing used a sample of 100 women receiving treatment for cancer. Internal consistency reliability using average correlations for the subscale item to subscale total scores ranged from 0.56 to 0.82. Subscale to total IFSCA score correlations ranged from 0.73 to 0.92. Testretest reliability used a sample of 17 women who had completed treatment for cancer. The coefficients ranged from 0.43 to 0.96 for the four subscales. Initial construct validity testing was accomplished by examination of subscale correlations and by comparing the functional status of women in active treatment for cancer with those who had completed treatment. The study's findings reveal content validity, internal consistency, testretest reliability, and beginning construct validity thus, they demonstrate strong evidence for further development and testing of the IFSCA's construct validity. |
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