Development and validation of a questionnaire to measure preferences and expectations of patients undergoing palliative chemotherapy: EXPECT questionnaire
| Autor: | T P Sajith Babu, Chandran K Nair, T Shiva Kumar, M Geetha, V. Patil, M. S. Biji, T.K. Jithin, Atanu Bhattacharjee, Sampada Dessai, Santam Chakraborty, Vineetha Raghavan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male medicine.medical_specialty MEDLINE Linguistic validation 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Surveys and Questionnaires Completion rate medicine Humans In patient Medical physics Aged Face validity business.industry 030503 health policy & services Palliative Care Palliative chemotherapy Middle Aged Surgery Oncology 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Inclusion and exclusion criteria Female Observational study 0305 other medical science business |
| Zdroj: | Indian Journal of Cancer. 53:339 |
| ISSN: | 0019-509X |
| DOI: | 10.4103/0019-509x.197735 |
| Popis: | Objective: The objective was to design and validate the questionnaire for capturing palliative chemotherapy-related preferences and expectations. Design: Single arm, unicentric, prospective observational study. Methods: EXPECT questionnaire was designed to capture preferences and expectations of patients undergoing palliative chemotherapy. This questionnaire underwent a linguistic validation and then was tested in patients. Ten patients are undergoing chemotherapy for solid tumors who fulfilled the inclusion and exclusion criteria self-administered the EXPECT questionnaire in regional language. After filling this questionnaire, they self-administered quick questionnaire-10 (QQ-10). SPSS version 16 (IBM New York) was used for analysis. Completion rate of EXPECT questionnaire was calculated. The feasibility, face validity, utility and time taken for completion of EXPECT questionnaire was also assessed. Results: The completion rate of this questionnaire was 100%. All patients completed questionnaire within 5 min. The QQ-10 tool confirmed the feasibility, face validity and utility of the questionnaire. Conclusion: EXPECT questionnaire was validated in the regional language, and it's an effective tool for capturing patient's preferences and expectation from chemotherapy. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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