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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Sep 28.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2009 May 1;115(9):2004–2012. doi: 10.1002/cncr.24215

Table 5.

Table 5-a. Agreement Analysis on Recalled Symptom Frequencies
Patient/Family Caregiver Patient/Nurse Patient/PCS*** Family Caregiver/Nurse Family Caregiver/PCS*** Nurse/PCS***
Symptoms n* WK** (P ) n* WK** (P ) n* WK** (P ) n* WK** (P ) n* WK** (P ) n* WK** (P )
Auditory hallucinations 93 0.38 (<0.01) 79 0.19 (<0.01) 92 0.2 (0.02) 78 0.03 (0.52) 93 0.18 (0.01) 80 0.26 (<0.01)
Delusional thoughts 95 0.29 (<0.01) 80 0.15 (0.09) 93 0.1 (0.26) 79 0.08 (0.3) 94 0.07 (0.36) 80 0.04 (0.63)
Time Orientation 91 0.28 (<0.01) 74 -0.08 (0.4) 87 -0.02 (0.79) 79 -0.03 (0.73) 94 0.01 (0.97) 78 0.19 (0.03)
Place orientation 91 0.26 (<0.01) 74 -0.01 (0.93) 87 0.06 (0.43) 80 0.09 (0.26) 94 0.01 (0.93) 79 0.18 (0.03)
Psycho-motor agitation 94 0.25 (<0.01) 79 0.13 (0.12) 90 0.09 (0.26) 80 0.13 (0.06) 95 0.06 (0.4) 80 0.08 (0.33)
Tactile hallucinations 93 0.18 (0.02) 79 0.09 (0.37) 91 -0.003 (0.97) 79 0.13 (0.12) 94 0.07 (0.34) 80 0.13 (0.18)
Visual hallucinations 96 0.45 (<0.01) 78 0.14 (0.01) 91 0.21 (0.01) 80 0.18 (<0.01) 94 0.24 (<0.01) 79 0.05 (0.38)
Table 5-b. Agreement Analysis on Symptom Related Distress Scores
Patient/Family Caregiver
Symptoms n* WK** (P )
Auditory hallucinations 75 0.44 (<0.01)
Delusional thoughts 76 0.28 (<0.01)
Time orientation 83 0.12 (0.17)
Place orientation 81 0.31 (<0.01)
Psycho-motor agitation 80 0.29 (<0.01)
Tactile hallucinations 69 0.39 (<0.01)
Visual hallucinations 80 0.30 (<0.01)

n* = Effective Sample Size

WK** = weighted kappa

PCS*** = Palliative Care Specialist

n* = Effective Sample Size

WK** = weighted kappa