tailieunhanh - Báo cáo khoa học: " Validity and reliability testing of two instruments to measure breast cancer patients' concerns and information needs relating to radiation therapy"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Radiation Oncology cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài:" Validity and reliability testing of two instruments to measure breast cancer patients' concerns and information needs relating to radiation therapy. | Radiation Oncology BioMed Central Research Validity and reliability testing of two instruments to measure breast cancer patients concerns and information needs relating to radiation therapy Georgia KB Halkett and Linda J Kristjanson Address Western Australian Centre for Cancer and Palliative Care Curtin University of Technology Perth Australia Email Georgia KB Halkett - Linda J Kristjanson - Corresponding author Open Access Published 25 November 2007 Received 25 July 2007 Accepted 25 November 2007 Radiation Oncology 2007 2 43 doi 1748-717X-2-43 This article is available from http content 2 1 43 2007 Halkett and Kristjanson licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background It is difficult to determine the most effective approach to patient education or tailor education interventions for patients in radiotherapy without tools that assess patients specific radiation therapy information needs and concerns. Therefore the aim of this study was to develop psychometrically sound tools to adequately determine the concerns and information needs of cancer patients during radiation therapy. Patients and Methods Two tools were developed to I determine patients concerns about radiation therapy RT Concerns Scale and 2 ascertain patient s information needs at different time point during their radiation therapy RT Information Needs Scale . Tools were based on previous research by the authors published literature on breast cancer and radiation therapy and information behaviour research. Thirty-one breast cancer patients completed the questionnaire on one occasion and thirty participants completed the questionnaire on a second occasion to .