New Insights in Symptom Assessment: The Chinese Versions of the Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale Short Form (MSAS-SF) and the Condensed MSAS (CMSAS)

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 584-595

  Lam, Wendy Wing Tak ^a   Law, Chi Ching ^b   Fu, Yiu Tung ^b   Wong, Kam Hung ^b   Chang, Victor T ^c,d   Fielding, Richard ^a  

^a Unit for Behavioural Sciences   (Hong Kong)

^b QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

assessment; Chinese; colorectal cancer; distress; MSAS; QLQ C30; quality of life; Symptom; validation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CHINESE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORIAL SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT SCALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; ROSENBERG SELF-ESTEEM SCALE; SELF REPORT;

ADULT; AGED; CHINA; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 57049174641     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2007.12.008     Document Type: Article

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