Cross-sectional study to develop and describe psychometric characteristics of a patient-reported instrument (PROFFIT) for measuring financial toxicity of cancer within a public healthcare system.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To measure and explain financial toxicity (FT) of cancer in Italy, where a public healthcare system exists and patients with cancer are not expected (or only marginally) to pay out-of-pocket for healthcare.

Setting

Ten clinical oncological centres, distributed across Italian macroregions (North, Centre, South and Islands), including hospitals, university hospitals and national research institutes.

Participants

From 8 October 2019 to 11 December 2019, 184 patients, aged 18 or more, who were receiving or had received within the previous 3 months active anticancer treatment were enrolled, 108 (59%) females and 76 (41%) males.

Intervention

A 30-item prefinal questionnaire, previously developed within the qualitative tasks of the project, was administered

SUBMITTER: Riva S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8529986 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature