1995
DOI: 10.1016/0169-5002(95)00450-f
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Reliability and validity of the functional assessment of cancer therapy—lung (FACT-L) quality of life instrument

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“…The possible range on each subscale is 0 to 28 with higher scores indicating better functioning. The FACT is widely used in cancer studies and both the general measure and the lung cancer specific measure have been shown to possess adequate psychometric properties including internal consistency, convergent validity, and sensitivity to change in performance status ratings (an indicator of patient functional status; Cella et al, 1993Cella et al, , 1995. Cronbach's alphas in the present study were .83 (physical well being), .84 (functional well being), and .73 (lung cancer symptoms).…”
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“…The possible range on each subscale is 0 to 28 with higher scores indicating better functioning. The FACT is widely used in cancer studies and both the general measure and the lung cancer specific measure have been shown to possess adequate psychometric properties including internal consistency, convergent validity, and sensitivity to change in performance status ratings (an indicator of patient functional status; Cella et al, 1993Cella et al, , 1995. Cronbach's alphas in the present study were .83 (physical well being), .84 (functional well being), and .73 (lung cancer symptoms).…”
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“…Quality of life was measured using the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy -Lung Cancer (FACT-L; Cella et al, 1995). The FACT-L consists of four general and one lung cancer symptom-specific subscale.…”
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“…A scale elaborated to assess different symptoms and functions in cancer patients is the EORTC QLQ-30 (Aaronson et al 1993), with a special module meant for patients with lung cancer (QLQ-LC13) that includes a dyspnea scale measuring dyspnea in relation to effort (Bergman et al 1994). Dyspnea in patients with lung cancer has also been measured by Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy with a supplement for lung cancer (Cella et al 1995) and the Lung Cancer Symptom Scale (Hollen et al 1993). The influence of dyspnea on daily life activities has been measured by the Shortness of Breath Questionnaire (Eakin et al 1998).…”
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“…The questionnaires have been developed to reflect patients' concerns, they are reliable, reproducible and have been validated in numerous studies. [3][4][5][6][7] One drawback with the FACT system (and with other investigator-derived QoL questionnaires) is the inability of individual patients to express a view about how important they consider the various QoL domains to be to their particular circumstances. Thus, if a subject has a very 'poor' functional well-being but does not consider this to be a particularly important contributor to his/her overall QoL, then this will not be suitably reflected in his/her FACT score.…”
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