TY - JOUR
T1 - Psychosocial screening for patients with prostate cancer
T2 - The development and validation of the psychosocial distress questionnaire-prostate cancer
AU - Castermans, Esther
AU - Coenders, Marcel
AU - Beerlage, Hendrik P.
AU - de Vries, Jolanda
PY - 2016/11/1
Y1 - 2016/11/1
N2 - We describe the psychosocial distress questionnaire-prostate cancer (PDQ-PC), a psychosocial screening list developed and validated specifically for prostate cancer patients. An existing screening list, the psychosocial distress questionnaire-breast cancer (PDQ-BC), was used as a starting point. Two focus groups were then implemented to investigate which items of the PDQ-BC were relevant for the PDQ-PC and which new items were needed. Validity and reliability of the questionnaire were assessed on 278 prostate cancer patients. Factor analysis showed that the 36-item PDQ-PC comprises eight subscales, for which the internal consistency ranged from α = 0.48–0.88. Moreover, moderate to high convergent validity was found.
AB - We describe the psychosocial distress questionnaire-prostate cancer (PDQ-PC), a psychosocial screening list developed and validated specifically for prostate cancer patients. An existing screening list, the psychosocial distress questionnaire-breast cancer (PDQ-BC), was used as a starting point. Two focus groups were then implemented to investigate which items of the PDQ-BC were relevant for the PDQ-PC and which new items were needed. Validity and reliability of the questionnaire were assessed on 278 prostate cancer patients. Factor analysis showed that the 36-item PDQ-PC comprises eight subscales, for which the internal consistency ranged from α = 0.48–0.88. Moreover, moderate to high convergent validity was found.
KW - distress
KW - psychosocial screening
KW - prostate cancer
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84992376499&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/07347332.2016.1233925
DO - 10.1080/07347332.2016.1233925
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84992376499
SN - 0734-7332
VL - 34
SP - 512
EP - 529
JO - Journal of Psychosocial Oncology
JF - Journal of Psychosocial Oncology
IS - 6
ER -