Journal article
A comparison of the FACT-G and the Supportive Care Needs Survey (SCNS) in women with ovarian cancer: Unidimensionality of constructs
B Colagiuri, MT King, PN Butow, JA McGrane, T Luckett, MA Price, DP Birney
Quality of Life Research | SPRINGER | Published : 2012
Abstract
Purpose: Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and unmet needs (needs) questionnaires offer alternative perspectives for assessing cancer patients' concerns. We examined whether the conceptual differences underlying these alternative approaches yield corresponding empirical differences. Methods: Eight-hundred and seventy-four women with ovarian cancer completed the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy scale (FACT-G; HRQoL) and the Supportive Care Needs Survey (SCNS-SF34; needs) every 3 months for 2 years. Correlational analysis, exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis (EFA/CFA), and Rasch analysis tested the relationship between patients' responses to similar domains and similar ite..
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Funding Acknowledgements
AOCS-QoL study was funded by The Cancer Councils of New South Wales and Queensland (RG 36/05). Financial support for the parent study was provided by the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command under DAMD17-01-1-0729, the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (400413 and 400281) and the Cancer Councils of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria and the Cancer Foundation of Western Australia. Additional recruitment was conducted under the Australian Cancer Study (Ovarian Cancer), funded by NHMRC (199600). Full membership of the AOCS Group is listed at http://www.aocstudy.org/. Participating sites include New South Wales: John Hunter Hospital, North Shore Private Hospital, Royal Hospital for Women, Royal North Shore Hospital, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Westmead Hospital, New South Wales Cancer Registry; Queensland: Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Townsville Hospital, Wesley Hospital, Queensland Cancer Registry; South Australia: Flinders Medical Centre, Queen Elizabeth II, Royal Adelaide Hospital, South Australian Cancer Registry; Tasmania: Royal Hobart Hospital; Victoria: Freemasons Hospital, Mercy Hospital For Women, Royal Women's Hospital, Victorian Cancer Registry; Western Australia: King Edward Memorial Hospital, St John of God Hospitals Subiaco, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Western Australia Research Tissue Network (WARTN), Western Australia Cancer Registry. We also acknowledge the contribution of the study nurses and research assistants and would like to thank all of the women who participated in the study.