Agreement between pediatric brain tumor patients and parent proxy reports regarding the pediatric functional assessment of cancer therapy-childhood brain tumor survivors questionnaire, version 2

Cancer

Volumn 116, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 3674-3682

  Yoo, Hee Jung ^a   Ra, Young Shin ^a   Park, Hyeon Jin ^b   Lai, Jin Shei ^c   Cella, David ^c   Shin, Hee Young ^d   Kim, Dong Seok ^e  

^a University of Ulsan   (South Korea)

^b National Cancer Center   (South Korea)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^e Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Agreement; Parent proxy; Pediatric brain tumor; Pediatric functional assessment of cancer therapy childhood brain tumor survivors (pedsFACT BrS); Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER PATIENT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PEDIATRIC FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT OF CANCER THERAPY CHILDHOOD BRAIN TUMOR SURVIVORS QUESTIONNAIRE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF REPORT; WELLBEING;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; HUMANS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PARENTS; PROXY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SURVIVORS;

EID: 77955390695     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.25200     Document Type: Article

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