Defining a patient-centered approach to cancer survivorship care: development of the patient centered survivorship care index (PC-SCI).

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

This study presents the validation of an index that defines and measures a patient-centered approach to quality survivorship care.

Methods

We conducted a national survey of 1,278 survivors of breast, prostate, and colorectal cancers to identify their priorities for cancer survivorship care. We identified 42 items that were "very important or absolutely essential" to study participants. We then conducted exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses (EFA/CFA) to develop and validate the Patient-Centered Survivorship Care Index (PC-SCI).

Results

A seven-factor structure was identified based on EFA on a randomly split half sample and then validated by CFA based on the other half sample. The seven factors include: (1) information and support in survivorship (7 item

SUBMITTER: Mead KH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8684610 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature