Predicting psychological distress in patients with cancer: conceptual basis and reliability evaluation of a self-report questionnaire.
Anticancer Res
; 15(4): 1533-42, 1995.
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UNLABELLED: BACKGROUND/MATERIALS AND METHODS: A battery of instruments intended to predict the likelihood of future psychosocial distress in patients with cancer was developed and tested. The battery consists of newly-developed items for constructs relating to social support and to past coping experiences. Embedded within the past coping items are items on future illness-dependent expectations. The battery also incorporates previously developed instruments for recent stressful life events (Sarason) and the presence of anxiety or depression (SCL-90-R). The reliability of the entire instrument was determined in 2 similar groups of patients with cancer. RESULTS: The illness-dependent expectations items were stable and internally consistent. The past coping and social support items possessed stability, but did not possess sufficient internal consistency for either to be used as a scale. The recent stressful life event scores were not stable in either patient group over the two week retest interval. For the SCL-90-R, internal consistencies and stability coefficients are acceptable for all symptom dimensions with the exception of the stability coefficient for hostility.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Trastornos Mentales
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Neoplasias
Tipo de estudio:
Diagnostic_studies
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Etiology_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Qualitative_research
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Risk_factors_studies
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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En
Revista:
Anticancer Res
Año:
1995
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Article
País de afiliación:
Canadá
Pais de publicación:
Grecia