Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
Measuring psychological consequences of screening: adaptation of the psychological consequences questionnaire into Dutch. |
| Authors: |
Rijnsburger, A. J., Essink-Bot, M. L., van As, E., Cockburn, J., Koning, H. J., de Koning, H J (AUTHOR) |
| Source: |
Quality of Life Research. Jun2006, Vol. 15 Issue 5, p933-940. 8p. 6 Charts. |
| Subjects: |
Breast cancer diagnosis, Questionnaires, Psychometrics, Psychosocial factors, Cancer patients |
| Geographic Terms: |
Netherlands |
| Abstract: |
Objective: To assess the psychometric properties of a Dutch adaptation of an originally Australian instrument measuring the psychological impact of breast cancer screening.Methods: The three subscales (emotional, physical, social) of the Psychological Consequences Questionnaire (PCQ) underwent formal linguistic and cultural translation. A total of 524 women under intensive surveillance because of increased breast cancer risk were asked to complete the questionnaire at 2 months prior to screening, at the day of the screening visit preceding the screening, and 1-4 weeks after screening. Acceptability, score distribution, internal consistency, scale structure, responsiveness to change and construct validity were analysed.Results: Response rates were high (98-94%) and there were very few missing answers and non-unique answers. All scales had Cronbach's alphas > 0.70. The physical and social subscale showed ceiling effects. The item-own scale correlations were only slightly higher than the corresponding item-other scale correlations. Factor analysis showed that the assumed three separate subscales were replicated in our study. Pre- and post-screening effect sizes for the emotional scale were larger than for the other two scales. All PCQ scales correlated with the scales of two other psychological measures (p Conclusion: The Dutch PCQ is useful in measuring psychological impact among women under intensive surveillance because of high breast cancer risk. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Database: |
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection |
