Creation of a tool to evaluate supportive care

Area of Science:

• Health Sciences
• Patient-Reported Outcomes
• Psychometrics

Background:

• Lack of standardized tools hinders research on supportive care, particularly socioesthetics (SE).
• Evaluating the impact of supportive care requires validated patient-reported outcome measures.
• Scientific research on SE's benefits is limited due to measurement tool absence.

Purpose of the Study:

• To develop and validate a patient-reported outcome questionnaire for supportive care.
• To create a reliable instrument for assessing patient-reported outcomes in supportive care research.
• To establish a tool for measuring the impact of socioesthetics (SE) on patient well-being.

Main Methods:

• Developed the Patient Centricity Questionnaire (PCQ) following COSMIN recommendations.
• Employed a multidisciplinary team including physicians, sociologists, and supportive care experts.
• Conducted steps including questionnaire elaboration, measurement properties assessment, validation, and cognitive debriefing.

Main Results:

• The 11-item PCQ uses Visual Analogue Scales (VAS), scored 0-110 (higher is better).
• Achieved a Cronbach's alpha of 0.88, indicating high internal consistency.
• Demonstrated moderate correlations with PSS and SF-12 mental health, and poor correlations with WB12 and SF-12 physical health.

Conclusions:

• The PCQ is a simple, reliable, and validated tool meeting prerequisites for patient-reported outcomes.
• Its user-friendly format facilitates broad application in research settings.
• The PCQ enables randomized studies to quantify supportive care and SE's impact on patient quality of life.