Assessing Emotional Functioning with Increased Power: Relative Validity of a Customized EORTC Short Form in the International ACTION Trial

There is a need to improve the assessment of emotional functioning (EF). In the international Advance Care Planning: an Innovative Palliative Care Intervention to Improve Quality of Life in Cancer Patients - a Multi-Centre Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial (ACTION) trial involving patients with advanced cancer, EF was assessed by a customized 10-item short form (EF10). The EF10 is based on the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) EF item bank and has the potential for greater precision than the common EORTC Quality of Life Questionnaire Core 30 four-item scale (EF4).

Source: Value in Health - August 20, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Lea J. Jabbarian, Mogens Groenvold, Morten Aa. Petersen, Caroline Arnfeldt Christensen, Luc Deliens, Agnes van der Heide, Marijke C. Kars, Guido Miccinesi, Sheila Payne, Andrew Wilcock, Ida J. Korfage, on behalf of the ACTION consortium Source Type: research