Table 1.
Variable | Questionnaire: patient age in years | Reliability | Scoring |
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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 |