Abstract
Background
The aim was to develop a checksheet that comprehends the daily lives of breast cancer patients receiving endocrine therapy, and examine its reliability and validity.
Methods
An anonymous, cross-sectional questionnaire was given to breast cancer patients under the age of 50 who had been receiving endocrine therapy for less than 1 year at outpatient clinical oncology offices in three facilities. Reliability was examined using Cronbach’s alpha and test–retest reliability. Content validity, face validity, concurrent validity, convergent validity/discriminant validity, and factor analysis were used to examine validity. The study was carried out with approval from the research ethics committee.
Results
The checksheet was composed of three sections: subjective symptoms, discomforts in daily life while undergoing treatment, and coping with stress. Content validity was assessed as being mostly appropriate, and items identified as needing revision were corrected. Factor analysis led to four factors and 22 items for subjective symptoms, five factors and 18 items for daily life while undergoing treatment, and six factors and 24 items for coping with stress. Results indicated a high degree of correlation for concurrent validity, a moderate degree of correlation for convergent validity, and a low degree of correlation for discriminant validity.
Conclusion
This study verified that the checksheet in its initial development as a scale has high reliability and validity.
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Abbreviations
- QOL:
-
Quality of life
- FACT-B:
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Functional Assessment Of Cancer Therapy-Breast
- POMS:
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Profile of Mood States Brief Form
- VAS:
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Visual Analog Scale
- AMOS:
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Analysis Moment Structure
- SD:
-
Standard Deviation
- GFI:
-
Goodness-of-Fit Index
- AGFI:
-
Adjusted Goodness-of-Fit Index
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Acknowledgements
We are extremely grateful to all the breast cancer patients who cooperated in this study, which was implemented through a subsidy for “Development of a Self-treatment System: focusing on breast cancer patients undergoing hormone treatment” (No. 2265940) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research.
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Participants were given both written and oral explanations regarding cooperating in this study. They were informed that the merits or demerits of cooperating in this study would have absolutely no impact on treatment and that returning the anonymous questionnaire was voluntary. Its return by post to the principal researcher was regarded as consent to participate. The collected questionnaires were assigned new numbers, processed, and carefully kept. This study was conducted with approval from the research ethics committee of the institution to which the principal researcher belongs and the cooperating facilities (Showa University No. 1164, St. Luke’s International Hospital 11-R119, St. Luke’s International University 11-(streamlined review)-003).
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Yukiko Iioka declares that she has no conflict of interest. Takako Iwata declares that she has no conflict of interest. Hideko Yamauchi declares that she has no conflict of interest.
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Iioka, Y., Iwata, T. & Yamauchi, H. Developing a checksheet for breast cancer patients receiving endocrine therapy-examining reliability and validity. Breast Cancer 27, 100–110 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12282-019-00998-9
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