ArticleBMC palliative care2021
Short-form quality care questionnaire-palliative care has acceptable measurement properties in Brazilian cancer patients.
Article in BMC palliative care, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- Validation of the short-form quality care questionnaire - palliative care in Brazilian patients with heart failure eligible for palliative care.BMC palliative care · 2026Article
- Structural validity of the Brazilian version of the quality care questionnaire-palliative care for use in individuals with diabetes mellitus eligible for palliative care.Diabetology & metabolic syndrome · 2024Article
- Barthel Index is a valid and reliable tool to measure the functional independence of cancer patients in palliative care.BMC palliative care · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundOur objective was to perform the translation, cross-cultural adaptation, and validation of the Quality Care Questionnaire-Palliative Care (QCQ-PC) into Brazilian Portuguese for cancer patients in palliative care. The translation and cross-cultural adaptation comprised the following stages: translation, synthesis of translations, back-translation, analysis by a committee of experts, testing of the pre-final version, and definition of the final version. The evaluated measurement properties were: structural validity using factor analysis, test-retest reliability using the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC), internal consistency using Cronbach's alpha, and construct validity using the correlations between the QCQ-PC and other questionnaires already validated in Brazil.
resultsTwo hundred and twenty-five cancer patients were included for validity analyses, and a subsample of 30 patients was used for test-retest reliability. The most adequate fit indexes were for the short version of the QCQ-PC (SF-QCQ-PC), with two domains and 12 items. There was adequate reliability and internal consistency, with values of the ICC ≥ 0.83 and Cronbach's alpha ≥0.82. There were correlations > 0.30 between the SF-QCQ-PC and the Karnofsky Performance Scale, the Palliative Prognostic Index, the sadness domain of the Edmonton Symptom Assessment System, the Barthel Index, and all domains related to the McGill Quality of Life Questionnaire and the European Organization for Research in the Treatment of Cancer Questionnaire-core.
conclusionThe short version of the SF-QCQ-PC has acceptable psychometric properties for use in Brazil.
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