Table 3.
Eliciting and Validating Items
| Item | Mean | SD | Range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Inquiries/Discussion about mood/depression | 0.8 | 1.5 | 0.0 - 5.0 |
| 2. Inquiries/Discussion about cancer's impact on life | 0.7 | 1.2 | 0.0 - 4.0 |
| 3. Inquiries/Discussion about sleep | 0.7 | 1.1 | 0.0 - 3.0 |
| 4. Inquiries/Discussion about weight loss | 1.7 | 1.4 | 0.0 - 5.0 |
| 5. Inquiries/Discussion about appetite | 0.7 | 1.1 | 0.0 - 3.0 |
| 6. Inquiries/Discussion about previous physicians | 2.1 | 1.4 | 0.0 - 5.0 |
| 7. Inquiries/Discussion about current medications | 2.3 | 1.2 | 0.0 - 3.0 |
| 8. Inquiries/Discussion about alcohol use | 1.3 | 1.5 | 0.0 - 5.0 |
| 9. Discusses working status | 1.9 | 1.4 | 0.0 - 4.0 |
| 10. Discusses marital status | 1.8 | 1.6 | 0.0 - 5.0 |
| 11. Treatment Plan: discuss medications for treatment | 1.9 | 1.3 | 0.0 - 3.0 |
| 12. Ask about ADLs and IADLs | 0.5 | 1.1 | 0.0 - 3.0 |
| Additional items dropped from scale* | |||
| 13. Inquiries/Discussion about medical problems unrelated to cancer | 2.7 | 0.8 | 0.0 - 5.0 |
| 14. Conducts a physical exam | 2.7 | 0.9 | 0.0 - 3.0 |
| 15. Inquiries/Discussion about smoking | 2.4 | 1.2 | 0.0 - 5.0 |
| 16. Discusses any at-risk exposure to carcinogens | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.0 - 3.0 |
| 17. Recommended change in pain medications | 0.3 | 0.9 | 0.0 - 3.0 |
| 18. Cancer: Scans done since treatment | 1.4 | 1.3 | 0.0 - 3.0 |
| 19. Cancer: radiation done to back | 2.6 | 1.2 | 0.0 - 5.0 |
| 20. Treatment Plan: PET scan or some other scan | 2.5 | 1.1 | 0.0 - 3.0 |
| 21. Treatment Plan: Discuss referral for Radiation Oncologist | 1.4 | 1.5 | 0.0 - 5.0 |
| 22. Treatment Plan: Other Blood Tests | 1.4 | 1.4 | 0.0 - 3.0 |
*
These behaviors happened either so infrequently that we were unable to code reliably or they did not correlate with the total score and their removal improved Cronbach's alpha.