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Quality of Life Research
Gepubliceerd in: Quality of Life Research 6/2015

01-06-2015

Anxiety and worry when coping with cancer treatment: agreement between patient and proxy responses

Auteurs: Ana Paula Hermont, Ana Carolina Scarpelli, Saul M. Paiva, Sheyla M. Auad, Isabela A. Pordeus

Gepubliceerd in: Quality of Life Research | Uitgave 6/2015

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Abstract

Purpose

Assess agreement between proxy respondents (caregivers) and children/adolescents related to the impact of cancer on children’s/adolescents’ health-related quality of life, with respect to anxiety and worry issues.

Methods

A cross-sectional study was conducted among 83 Brazilian children/adolescents, of both genders, diagnosed with cancer, aged 5–18 years and their proxy respondents. Anxiety and worry were assessed through items of the instrument Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ Cancer Module Scale. Participants were recruited from the pediatric hematology/oncology centers at two public hospitals. All individuals were receiving medical care. Descriptive statistics were performed as well as a weighted kappa coefficient, Spearman’s correlation coefficient, Wilcoxon signed-rank test and Bland–Altman plots. The magnitude of the difference between the mean scores obtained from children/adolescents and that of their proxy respondents was evaluated through effect size.

Results

The proxy respondents underestimated the feelings of worry among children (8–12 years) (p < 0.001; effect size 0.71) and overestimated adolescents’ (13–18 years) treatment anxiety (p < 0.05; effect size 0.57). The comparison between the three age groups (5–7, 8–12, 13–18 years) showed a tendency for children/adolescents to report increasing feelings of worry as they got older. In the ‘treatment anxiety’ subscale, there was a tendency for proxy respondents to present higher mean scores, revealing that proxy respondents believed the children’s/adolescents’ treatment anxiety decreased as they aged.

Conclusions

Discrepancies between the reports of children/adolescents and their proxy respondents were observed. Children’s/adolescents’ reports should not be ignored nor replaced by proxy reports; both reports should be analyzed together.
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Metagegevens
Titel
Anxiety and worry when coping with cancer treatment: agreement between patient and proxy responses
Auteurs
Ana Paula Hermont
Ana Carolina Scarpelli
Saul M. Paiva
Sheyla M. Auad
Isabela A. Pordeus
Publicatiedatum
01-06-2015
Uitgeverij
Springer International Publishing
Gepubliceerd in
Quality of Life Research / Uitgave 6/2015
Print ISSN: 0962-9343
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-2649
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-014-0869-3

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