Cancer
Conditions
Brief summary
This study aims to validate the CARES, a needs assessment instrument which can be used to inventorize cancer patients biopsychosocial distress and care needs. * QUANTITATIVE PART OF THE STUDY: Patients need to fill in a questionnaire package containing questions about social-demographic and medical data, the CARES and convergent measures: Karnofsky Performance Scale (KPS), Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale (HADS), Social Support List (SSL), Maudsley Marital Questionnaire (MMQ), European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality Of Life Core 30 (EORTC-QOL-C30), Distress Thermometer (DT) and a Care Needs Questionnaire. One week after the first questionnaire package participants have to fill in the CARES a second time and answer some questions to evaluate the feasibility of the CARES. * QUALITATIVE PART OF THE STUDY: Participants from the quantitative part of the study and other (ex-) cancer patients who not have to fulfill the criteria of age and cancer stage can participate in a focus group interview. In these focus groups the content validity and preferences on psychosocial screening in care are discussed.
Interventions
OTHERQuestionnaire, focus group participation
participants of the quantitative part of the study are asked to fill in a questionnaire, participants of the qualitative part are asked to participate in a focus group interview.
Sponsors
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
KU Leuven
Hasselt University
Study design
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
25 Years to 60 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Primary cancer diagnosis stage I, II, III * All types of cancer
Exclusion criteria
* Having had or premorbid neurological problems or cognitive dysfunctions. * The lack of proficiency in Dutch (Flemish).
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Validity of the CARES | week 1 | CARES-total and subscale scores. Computation of internal consistency of summary scales (for reliability), intra-class correlation between test and retest scores (for reliability), confirmatory factor analysis (for construct-validity) |
| Convergent validity of the CARES | week 1 | Total- and subscale scores of convergent instruments (KPS, HADS,SSL, MMQ, EORTC-QOL-C30, DT). Computation of correlation between CARES-scores and scores of convergent instruments. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| To assess the distress and care needs of cancer patients | week 1 | inventorization of level of distress, number and kind of difficulties and care needs experienced by cancer patients |
| To assess patients experiences with psychosocial care | week 1 | Patients experiences of the approach of psychosocial wellbeing in cancer care, and their preferences in this area. |
Countries
Belgium
Outcome results
None listed