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ArticleBMC cancer2017

Methodological study to evaluate the psychometric properties of FACIT-CD in a sample of Brazilian women with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia.

Cristiane Menezes Sirna Fregnani, José Humberto Tavares Guerreiro Fregnani, Adhemar Longatto-Filho

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Article in BMC cancer, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Cristiane Menezes Sirna FregnaniTeaching and Research Institute of Barretos Cancer Hospital, Antenor Duarte Villela street, 1331. Barretos, São Paulo, Zip code: 14784-400, Brazil. cmsirna@hotmail.com.
José Humberto Tavares Guerreiro FregnaniTeaching and Research Institute of Barretos Cancer Hospital, Antenor Duarte Villela street, 1331. Barretos, São Paulo, Zip code: 14784-400, Brazil.
Adhemar Longatto-FilhoTeaching and Research Institute of Barretos Cancer Hospital, Antenor Duarte Villela street, 1331. Barretos, São Paulo, Zip code: 14784-400, Brazil.
Hospital de Câncer de Barretos · BRUniversity of Minho · PT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe occurrence of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) is associated with changes in health-related quality of life, including psychological factors, such as fear and shame, and changes in sexuality and sexual satisfaction, such as decreased sexual desire and frequency of sexual intercourse. Personal relationships are the most affected because CIN is sexually transmitted and many women tend to blame their partner for disease transmission. The aim of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the FACIT-CD questionnaire in Brazilian women diagnosed with CIN.

methodsThe properties of the FACIT-CD questionnaire were tested on a sample of 439 women seen at the Department of Prevention of Barretos Cancer Hospital, including 329 patients who were diagnosed with CIN and 110 women who were not diagnosed with the disease. The analysed parameters included internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha), reproducibility (intraclass correlation coefficient), structural validity, convergent validity (correlation with the SF-12 and EORTC QLQ-CX24 questionnaires), discriminant validity (according to disease status, and self-rating of health), sensitivity, and responsiveness.

resultsThe Cronbach alpha values ​​of the FACIT-CD scales were higher than 0.70 with the exception of the relationship scale (0.66). The FACIT-CD reproducibility was satisfactory, with variation in the intraclass correlation coefficients ranging between 0.50 and 0.83, although the 95% confidence interval (CI) was lower than 0.40 (0.33-0.64) on the treatment satisfaction scale. Regarding structural validity, only one item on the physical well-being scale was not kept in the original domain. The expected correlations between the FACIT-CD and SF-12 were not confirmed, whereas the correlations between the FACIT-CD and EORTC QLQ-CX24 were confirmed. The questionnaire was able to discriminate the groups according to disease status and self-rating of health. The sensitivity was low for the relationship scale and moderate for the other scales. The responsiveness of the FACIT-CD questionnaire varied between the groups that denominate the self-perception of health as no change, improvement or worsening.

conclusionOur results are encouraging and indicate that the FACIT-CD questionnaire is a promising tool for the analysis of the quality of life of women with CIN.

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PsychometricsAdolescentAdultAgedBrazilChildFemaleHumansMiddle AgedPapillomaviridaePapillomavirus InfectionsQuality of LifeSurveys and QuestionnairesUterine Cervical DysplasiaCervical intraepithelial neoplasiaFACIT-CDHuman papilloma virusPsychometric properties

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