Reliability and validity of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy General (FACT-G) in French cancer patients

2005 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 1427-1432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathalie Costet ◽  
Valérie Lapierre ◽  
Ellen Benhamou ◽  
Catherine Le Galès
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Therapy ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Functional Assessment ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
General Fact

scholarly journals Managing Cancer and Living Meaningfully (CALM) Intervention on Chemotherapy-Related Cognitive Impairment in Breast Cancer Survivors

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 153473542093845
Author(s):  
Ke Ding ◽  
Xiuqing Zhang ◽  
Jingjing Zhao ◽  
He Zuo ◽  
Ziran Bi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Cognitive Function ◽  
Cancer Therapy ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Functional Assessment ◽  
Breast Cancer Survivors ◽  
Breast Cancer Patients ◽  
Before And After

Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness and feasibility of Managing Cancer and Living Meaningfully (CALM), which is used to reduce chemotherapy-related cognitive impairment (CRCI), relieve psychological distress, and improve quality of life (QOL) in Chinese breast cancer survivors (BCs). Methods: Seventy-four BCs were enrolled in this study. All patients were randomly assigned to either the CALM group or the care as usual (CAU) group. All patients were evaluated by the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy–Cognitive Function (FACT-Cog), Distress Thermometer (DT), and the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy–Breast (FACT-B) before and after CALM or CAU application to BCs with CRCI. We compared the differences in all these scores between the CALM group and the control group and analyzed the correlation between cognitive function and QOL. Results: Compared with the CAU group, the performance of the CALM group on the FACT-Cog, DT, and FACT-B showed significant differences before and after CALM ( t = −18.909, −5.180, −32.421, P = .000, .000, .000, respectively). Finally, there was a positive correlation between cognitive function and QOL in breast cancer patients before ( r = 0.579, P = .000) and after ( r = 0.797, P = .000) treatment. Conclusions: The present results indicated that CALM has salutary effects on the improvement of cognitive impairment and QOL and relieves psychological distress in breast cancer patients, which may be due to a positive correlation between psychological distress and cognitive function or QOL.

scholarly journals Validation of the 7‐item Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy‐General (FACT‐G7) as a short measure of quality of life in patients with advanced cancer

Cancer ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 126 (16) ◽  
pp. 3750-3757
Author(s):  
Kenneth Mah ◽  
Nadia Swami ◽  
Lisa W. Le ◽  
Ronald Chow ◽  
Breffni L. Hannon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Cancer Therapy ◽  
Advanced Cancer ◽  
Functional Assessment ◽  
General Fact

Psychometric evaluation of the Taiwanese version of the functional assessment of cancer therapy: a questionnaire for patients with lung cancer

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (7) ◽  
pp. 513-518
Author(s):  
Wen-Pei Chang ◽  
Yen-Kuang Lin ◽  
Chia-Chin Lin
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Lung Cancer ◽  
Cancer Therapy ◽  
Functional Assessment ◽  
Longitudinal Research ◽  
Characteristic Curve ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Psychometric Evaluation ◽  
Diagnosis Of Lung Cancer

Abstract Objective The Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Lung (FACT-L) consists of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General (FACT-G) and the Lung Cancer Subscale. The FACT-L is commonly used to measure quality of life in patients with lung cancer. This study evaluated the reliability and validity of the FACT-L in examining patients with lung cancer in Taiwan. Design This was a methodology study. Setting Patients with lung cancer at a regional hospital in Northern Taiwan. Participants Patients who had received an early diagnosis of lung cancer between 2013 and 2015 were recruited as respondents. Intervention(s) None. Main outcome measure(s) To verify the reliability and validity of the Taiwanese version of the FACT-L. Results A total of 104 patients who had received an initial diagnosis of lung cancer were recruited. The overall internal consistency of the FACT-L, as assessed using Cronbach’s α, was 0.82. Among the patients, 64 had a test–retest reliability (r) of 0.45 (P < 0.001) at 6 weeks after treatment. Moreover, longitudinal research indicated that the FACT-L detected score differences before and after treatment in these patients (Cohen’s d = −0.26). The Taiwanese version of the FACT-L considers 2-year survival as the gold standard, and the optimal combination of sensitivity and specificity was obtained when the receiver operating characteristic curve revealed cutoff points of 80 and 68 for the FACT-L and FACT-G, respectively. Conclusions The Taiwanese version of the FACT-L can be widely applied to assess the quality of life of patients with lung cancer.

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