A common metric for questionnaires on health anxiety in cancer patients.

ABSTRACT: After a cancer diagnosis, life is accompanied by worries, concerns and fears that the disease will recur or worsen. These can be normal and useful reactions but may also become so severe that they interfere with everyday functioning. A challenge for patient care is that the theoretical similarity of these reactions, is not consistently conceptualized in practice, hence the empirical comparability of their measures is unclear. Here we intend to show that the theoretical similarity is also empirically justified, and we present a common metric in graphical form that allows direct comparisons between different questionnaires. A total of 1,733 cancer patients completed the Fear of Progression Questionnaire Short Form, Questionnaire on Stress in Cancer Patients-revised version, Concerns About Re

SUBMITTER: Friedrich M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11649417 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature