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

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Iskandarsyah, Aulia ^a,b,c   de Klerk, Cora ^a   Suardi, Dradjat R ^d   Soemitro, Monty P ^d   Sadarjoen, Sawitri S ^c   Passchier, Jan ^a,b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c PADJADJARAN UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

^d Hasan Sadikin Hospital   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CONCURRENT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERGENT VALIDITY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DISTRESS THERMOMETER; EMOTIONAL STRESS; ETHNIC GROUP; FAMILY STRESS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; INDONESIA; INDONESIAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PHYSICAL STRESS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROBLEM LIST; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RELIGION; SELF REPORT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDITY; WHO QUALITY OF LIFE;

ADULT; ANXIETY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDONESIA; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TRANSLATING;

EID: 84873924263     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056353     Document Type: Article

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