Concept-elicitation phase for the development of the pediatric patient-reported outcome version of the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Symptoms arising from disease or treatment are subjective experiences. Insight into pediatric oncology treatment side effects or symptoms is ideally obtained from direct inquiry to the ill child. A concept-elicitation phase in a patient-reported outcome (PRO) instrument design provides an opportunity to elicit children's voices to shape cancer symptom selection and terminology.

Methods

Through semistructured, one-on-one, voice-recorded interviews, symptom data were collected from 96 children with cancer between the ages of 7 and 20 years who were undergoing oncologic treatment at 7 pediatric oncology sites in the United States and Canada.

Results

The mean number of symptoms reported per child over the prior 7 days was 1.49 (range, 0-7; median, 1; standard d

SUBMITTER: Weaver MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4707103 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature