背景:选择肿瘤学困扰筛查的措施可能具有挑战性。措施必须简短,但全面,抓住患者最痛苦的担忧。该措施必须提供对多个域的有意义的覆盖,评估症状和问题相关的困扰,非常适合临床和研究目的。
方法:从2006年3月到2012年8月,詹姆斯支持护理筛查(SCS)开发并验证了三个阶段,包括内容验证,因子分析,和测量验证。对596名肿瘤患者进行了探索性因素分析,然后对477名患者进行了验证性因素分析。
结果:确定并确认了六个因素,包括(i)情感问题;(ii)身体症状;(iii)社会/实际问题;(iv)精神问题;(v)认知问题;(vi)医疗保健决策/沟通问题。子量表评价揭示了良好到优异的内部一致性,测试-重测可靠性,和收敛,分歧,和预测效度。个别项目的特异性分别为0.90和0.87,用于识别DSM-IV-TR诊断为重度抑郁症和广泛性焦虑症的患者。
结论:结果支持使用JamesSCS快速检测癌症患者最常见和最痛苦的症状和担忧。詹姆斯SCS是一个高效的,可靠,和有效的临床和研究结果测量。
BACKGROUND: Selecting a measure for oncology distress screening can be challenging. The measure must be brief, but comprehensive, capturing patients\' most distressing concerns. The measure must provide meaningful coverage of multiple domains, assess symptom and problem-related distress, and ideally be suited for both clinical and research purposes.
METHODS: From March 2006 to August 2012, the James Supportive Care Screening (SCS) was developed and validated in three phases including content validation, factor analysis, and measure validation. Exploratory factor analyses were completed with 596 oncology patients followed by a confirmatory factor analysis with 477 patients.
RESULTS: Six factors were identified and confirmed including (i) emotional concerns; (ii) physical symptoms; (iii) social/practical problems; (iv) spiritual problems; (v) cognitive concerns; and (vi) healthcare decision making/communication issues. Subscale evaluation reveals good to excellent internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and convergent, divergent, and predictive validity. Specificity of individual items was 0.90 and 0.87, respectively, for identifying patients with DSM-IV-TR diagnoses of major depression and generalized anxiety disorder.
CONCLUSIONS: Results support use of the James SCS to quickly detect the most frequent and distressing symptoms and concerns of cancer patients. The James SCS is an efficient, reliable, and valid clinical and research outcomes measure.