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Reliability of the Brazilian version of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy‐Lung (FACT‐L) and the FACT‐Lung Symptom Index (FLSI)

OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to assess the reliability of the Brazilian version of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy‐Lung (FACT‐L) with the FACT‐Lung Symptom Index (FLSI) questionnaire. INTRODUCTION: The assessment of quality of life in patients with lung cancer has become an...

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Autores principales: Juliana, Franceschini, Jardim, José R, Fernandes, Ana Luisa Godoy, Jamnik, Sérgio, Santoro, Ilka Lopes
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Publicado: Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3020333/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21340211
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1807-59322010001200005
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author Juliana, Franceschini
Jardim, José R
Fernandes, Ana Luisa Godoy
Jamnik, Sérgio
Santoro, Ilka Lopes
author_facet Juliana, Franceschini
Jardim, José R
Fernandes, Ana Luisa Godoy
Jamnik, Sérgio
Santoro, Ilka Lopes
author_sort Juliana, Franceschini
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description OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to assess the reliability of the Brazilian version of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy‐Lung (FACT‐L) with the FACT‐Lung Symptom Index (FLSI) questionnaire. INTRODUCTION: The assessment of quality of life in patients with lung cancer has become an important evaluative endpoint in current clinical trials. For lung cancer patients, one of the most common quality of life tools available is the FACT‐L. Despite the amount of data available regarding this questionnaire, there are no data on its performance in Brazilian lung cancer patients. METHODS: The FACT‐L with the FLSI questionnaire was prospectively administered to 30 consecutive, stable, lung cancer outpatients at baseline and at 2 weeks. RESULTS: The intraclass correlation coefficient between test and retest for the FACT‐L ranged from 0.79 to 0.96 and for the FLSI was 0.87. There was no correlation between these questionnaire dimensions and clinical or functional parameters. CONCLUSIONS: The Brazilian version of the FACT‐L with FLSI questionnaire is reliable and is quick and simple to apply. This instrument can now be used to properly evaluate the quality of life of Brazilian lung cancer patients.
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spelling pubmed-30203332011-01-16 Reliability of the Brazilian version of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy‐Lung (FACT‐L) and the FACT‐Lung Symptom Index (FLSI) Juliana, Franceschini Jardim, José R Fernandes, Ana Luisa Godoy Jamnik, Sérgio Santoro, Ilka Lopes Clinics (Sao Paulo) Clinical Science OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to assess the reliability of the Brazilian version of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy‐Lung (FACT‐L) with the FACT‐Lung Symptom Index (FLSI) questionnaire. INTRODUCTION: The assessment of quality of life in patients with lung cancer has become an important evaluative endpoint in current clinical trials. For lung cancer patients, one of the most common quality of life tools available is the FACT‐L. Despite the amount of data available regarding this questionnaire, there are no data on its performance in Brazilian lung cancer patients. METHODS: The FACT‐L with the FLSI questionnaire was prospectively administered to 30 consecutive, stable, lung cancer outpatients at baseline and at 2 weeks. RESULTS: The intraclass correlation coefficient between test and retest for the FACT‐L ranged from 0.79 to 0.96 and for the FLSI was 0.87. There was no correlation between these questionnaire dimensions and clinical or functional parameters. CONCLUSIONS: The Brazilian version of the FACT‐L with FLSI questionnaire is reliable and is quick and simple to apply. This instrument can now be used to properly evaluate the quality of life of Brazilian lung cancer patients. Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo 2010-12 /pmc/articles/PMC3020333/ /pubmed/21340211 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1807-59322010001200005 Text en Copyright © 2010 Hospital das Clínicas da FMUSP http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Clinical Science
Juliana, Franceschini
Jardim, José R
Fernandes, Ana Luisa Godoy
Jamnik, Sérgio
Santoro, Ilka Lopes
Reliability of the Brazilian version of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy‐Lung (FACT‐L) and the FACT‐Lung Symptom Index (FLSI)
title Reliability of the Brazilian version of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy‐Lung (FACT‐L) and the FACT‐Lung Symptom Index (FLSI)
title_full Reliability of the Brazilian version of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy‐Lung (FACT‐L) and the FACT‐Lung Symptom Index (FLSI)
title_fullStr Reliability of the Brazilian version of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy‐Lung (FACT‐L) and the FACT‐Lung Symptom Index (FLSI)
title_full_unstemmed Reliability of the Brazilian version of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy‐Lung (FACT‐L) and the FACT‐Lung Symptom Index (FLSI)
title_short Reliability of the Brazilian version of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy‐Lung (FACT‐L) and the FACT‐Lung Symptom Index (FLSI)
title_sort reliability of the brazilian version of the functional assessment of cancer therapy‐lung (fact‐l) and the fact‐lung symptom index (flsi)
topic Clinical Science
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3020333/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21340211
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1807-59322010001200005
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