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The Distress Thermometer and Its Validity: A First Psychometric Study in Indonesian Women with Breast Cancer

PURPOSE: This study aims to translate the Distress Thermometer (DT) into Indonesian, test its validity in Indonesian women with breast cancer and determine norm scores of the Indonesian DT for clinically relevant distress. METHODS: First, the original version of the DT was translated using a forward...

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Autores principales: Iskandarsyah, Aulia, de Klerk, Cora, Suardi, Dradjat R., Soemitro, Monty P., Sadarjoen, Sawitri S., Passchier, Jan
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Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3571987/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23418561
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0056353
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author Iskandarsyah, Aulia
de Klerk, Cora
Suardi, Dradjat R.
Soemitro, Monty P.
Sadarjoen, Sawitri S.
Passchier, Jan
author_facet Iskandarsyah, Aulia
de Klerk, Cora
Suardi, Dradjat R.
Soemitro, Monty P.
Sadarjoen, Sawitri S.
Passchier, Jan
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description PURPOSE: This study aims to translate the Distress Thermometer (DT) into Indonesian, test its validity in Indonesian women with breast cancer and determine norm scores of the Indonesian DT for clinically relevant distress. METHODS: First, the original version of the DT was translated using a forward and backward translation procedure according to the guidelines. Next, a group of 120 breast cancer patients who were treated at the Outpatient Surgical Oncology Clinic in Hasan Sadikin Hospital in Indonesia completed a standard socio-demographic form, the DT and the Problem List, the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and the WHO Quality of Life (WHOQOL-BREF). RESULTS: Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analyses identified an area under the curve = 0.81 when compared to the HADS cutoff score of 15. A cutoff score of 5 on the DT had the best sensitivity (0.81) and specificity (0.64). Patients who scored above this cutoff reported more problems in the practical, family, emotional, spiritual/religious and physical domains (30 out of 36 problems, p-value<0.05) than patients below the cutoff score. Patients at advanced stages of cancer experienced more emotional and physical problems. Patient's distress level was negatively correlated with overall quality of life, general health and all quality of life domains. CONCLUSIONS: The DT was found to be a valid tool for screening distress in Indonesian breast cancer patients. We recommend using a cutoff score of 5 in this population.
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spelling pubmed-35719872013-02-15 The Distress Thermometer and Its Validity: A First Psychometric Study in Indonesian Women with Breast Cancer Iskandarsyah, Aulia de Klerk, Cora Suardi, Dradjat R. Soemitro, Monty P. Sadarjoen, Sawitri S. Passchier, Jan PLoS One Research Article PURPOSE: This study aims to translate the Distress Thermometer (DT) into Indonesian, test its validity in Indonesian women with breast cancer and determine norm scores of the Indonesian DT for clinically relevant distress. METHODS: First, the original version of the DT was translated using a forward and backward translation procedure according to the guidelines. Next, a group of 120 breast cancer patients who were treated at the Outpatient Surgical Oncology Clinic in Hasan Sadikin Hospital in Indonesia completed a standard socio-demographic form, the DT and the Problem List, the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and the WHO Quality of Life (WHOQOL-BREF). RESULTS: Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analyses identified an area under the curve = 0.81 when compared to the HADS cutoff score of 15. A cutoff score of 5 on the DT had the best sensitivity (0.81) and specificity (0.64). Patients who scored above this cutoff reported more problems in the practical, family, emotional, spiritual/religious and physical domains (30 out of 36 problems, p-value<0.05) than patients below the cutoff score. Patients at advanced stages of cancer experienced more emotional and physical problems. Patient's distress level was negatively correlated with overall quality of life, general health and all quality of life domains. CONCLUSIONS: The DT was found to be a valid tool for screening distress in Indonesian breast cancer patients. We recommend using a cutoff score of 5 in this population. Public Library of Science 2013-02-13 /pmc/articles/PMC3571987/ /pubmed/23418561 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0056353 Text en © 2013 Iskandarsyah et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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Iskandarsyah, Aulia
de Klerk, Cora
Suardi, Dradjat R.
Soemitro, Monty P.
Sadarjoen, Sawitri S.
Passchier, Jan
The Distress Thermometer and Its Validity: A First Psychometric Study in Indonesian Women with Breast Cancer
title The Distress Thermometer and Its Validity: A First Psychometric Study in Indonesian Women with Breast Cancer
title_full The Distress Thermometer and Its Validity: A First Psychometric Study in Indonesian Women with Breast Cancer
title_fullStr The Distress Thermometer and Its Validity: A First Psychometric Study in Indonesian Women with Breast Cancer
title_full_unstemmed The Distress Thermometer and Its Validity: A First Psychometric Study in Indonesian Women with Breast Cancer
title_short The Distress Thermometer and Its Validity: A First Psychometric Study in Indonesian Women with Breast Cancer
title_sort distress thermometer and its validity: a first psychometric study in indonesian women with breast cancer
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3571987/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23418561
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0056353
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