作者
Charles S Cleeland, Tito R Mendoza, Xin Shelley Wang, Chyi Chou, Margaret T Harle, Marilyn Morrissey, Martha C Engstrom
发表日期
2000/10/1
期刊
Cancer: Interdisciplinary International Journal of the American Cancer Society
卷号
89
期号
7
页码范围
1634-1646
出版商
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
简介
BACKGROUND
The purpose of this project was to develop the M. D. Anderson Symptom Inventory (MDASI), a brief measure of the severity and impact of cancer‐related symptoms.
METHODS
A list of symptoms was generated from symptom inventories and by panels of clinicians. Twenty‐six symptoms and 6 interference items were rated by a validation sample of 527 outpatients, a sample of 30 inpatients from the blood and bone marrow transplantation service, and a cross‐validation sample of 113 outpatients. Clinical judgment and statistical techniques were used to reduce the number of symptoms. Reliability, validity, and sensitivity of the MDASI were examined.
RESULTS
Cluster analysis, best subset analysis, and clinical judgment reduced the number of symptoms to a “core” list of 13 that accounted for 64% of the variance in symptom distress. Factor analysis demonstrated a similar pattern in both outpatient …
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