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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 May 8.
Published in final edited form as: Oncol Nurs Forum. 2019 Mar 1;46(2):228–237. doi: 10.1188/19.ONF.228-237

Table 1.

Study Instruments

Variable Questionnaire: patient age in years Reliability Scoring
Fatigue Parent Fatigue Scale: 3–6
Child Fatigue Scale: 7–12
Adolescent Fatigue Scale: 13–18
Internal consistency for all scales = 0.67–0.95 (Mandrell et al., 2011;Hinds et al., 2010; Hockenberry et al., 2003) 5-point Likert scale
Total score: T-score ranging from 20–80
Sleep disturbance Child Sleep Wake Scale by parent: 3–6
Child Sleep Wake Scale: 7–12
Adolescent Sleep Wake Scale: 13–18
Cronbach’s alpha = 0.81–0.91 (Storfer-Isser et al., 2013; LeBourgeois & Harsh, 2016) 6-point Likert scale
Total score: Average reversed score ranging from 25–168
Pain Wong-Baker Faces Scale by parent: 3–6
Wong-Baker Faces Scale: 7–18
Pearson coefficient = 0.62–0.96 (Tsze et al., 2017)
Kappa coefficient = 0.846 (Wood et al, 2011)
6-point visual analog scale
Total score: Raw score ranging from 0–10
Nausea Visual Analog Scale by parent: 3–6
Visual Analog Scale: 7–18
Spearman =0.90 (Meek, Kelly, & Hu, 2009) 100-point visual analog scale
Total score: Raw score ranging from 0–100
Depression Child Depression Inventory (CDI-2) Parent Report: 3–6
CDI-2: 7–18
Cronbach alpha = 0.91 Test-retest reliability = 0.89 (Kovacs, 2011) 3 choice response (absence, mild, or definite symptom)
Total score: T-score ranging from 20–80
Health-related quality of life Peds QL Cancer Module Parent Report: 3–6
Peds QL Cancer Module Child Report: 7–12
PedsQL Cancer Module Teen Report: 13–18
Cronbach’s alpha = 0.87 for parent report and 0.72 for child/teen (Varni et al., 2002) 5-point Likert scale
Total score: Mean score ranging from 0–100