Journal article
The initial development of an item bank to assess and screen for psychological distress in cancer patients.
- Abstract:
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Psychological distress is a common problem among cancer patients. Despite the large number of instruments that have been developed to assess distress, their utility remains disappointing. This study aimed to use Rasch models to develop an item-bank which would provide the basis for better means of assessing psychological distress in cancer patients.An item bank was developed from eight psychological distress questionnaires using Rasch analysis to link common items. Items from the questionnair...
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- Publication status:
- Published
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- Journal:
- Psycho-oncology
- Volume:
- 16
- Issue:
- 8
- Pages:
- 724-732
- Publication date:
- 2007-08-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1099-1611
- ISSN:
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1057-9249
- Source identifiers:
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175870
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- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:175870
- UUID:
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uuid:c3431b70-93cc-4def-9188-b364cd1afbc6
- Local pid:
- pubs:175870
- Deposit date:
- 2012-12-19
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- Copyright date:
- 2007
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