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Treatment type and symptom severity among oncology patients by self-report

2001; Elsevier BV; Volume: 38; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/s0020-7489(00)00067-5

1873-491X

Phoebe D. Williams, Kathleen A Ducey, Angela M Sears, Arthur R. Williams, Susan E Tobin-Rumelhart, Paula J. Bunde,

Psychometric Methodologies and Testing

Oncology patients receiving chemotherapy (n=109) and radiation therapy RT (n=161) reported symptom concerns and severity on the 25-item therapy-related symptom checklist (TRSC). Secondary analysis of the self-reports of the two treatment groups was done using the Mann-Whitney U Test. Thirteen symptoms differed significantly between the two groups. RT patients reported significantly greater severity of five symptoms (p<0.05) during therapy. Chemotherapy patients reported significantly greater severity of eight different symptoms. The other 14 items showed a heterogeneous pattern of self-reported patient symptom concerns. The TRSC appears to be a clinically useful self-report checklist that captures the more important symptom concerns of both RT and chemotherapy patients. Earlier efforts to develop this checklist are reviewed briefly.